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Exciting news from outer space! No, not that news, silly. Marvin will be along soon but not just yet. This is about Russians sending a flying tin can to the large rock orbiting our lovely planet.

Russian lunar probe activates scientific devices in its travel to Moon — Roscosmos
As a result, the first measurement data on a flight path to the Moon was obtained.

I assume from the article that “first measurement” refers to the data from this specific rocket mission. Because, of course, Roscosmos could have easily contacted Stanley Kubrick NASA for helpful flight telemetry and… Ooooooh. Oh, yeah. That. Well, here’s wishing the little Russian bot thing well on its historic first mission to the moon. Maybe one day men will follow it.

UPDATE: Oops.