The Moon Got In The Way

Disappointing that the Russian Luna-25 craft which was due to touch down on the Moon's South Pole tomorrow has discovered that hitting a huge Space rock at high speed means no more Luna-25 or as the Russian's put it: 'ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the moon'.
The craft was meant to spend a year collecting rock samples and trying to get a sense of whether the moon craters contained water which could support a permanent base for humans and now we will never know, well not until mid-week when the Indian lunar lander Chandrayaan-3 hopes for a more successful landing at the Moon's unexplored South Pole.
It was probably due to Russia racing against India to make the landing that the necessary checks to make sure the thing could land after its 250,000 mile trip were cut but to me it doesnt matter who does it first, as long as someone does because a human colony on the Moon is the natural next step to us humans going boldly where no man has gone before.