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Russia launched its first lunar lander in nearly 50 years on Friday in a journey to the moon’s south pole, joining a race with NASA and other space agencies to the region.

The Soyuz rocket carrying the Luna-25 craft lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far east at 2:11 a.m. Moscow time and reached orbit about 10 minutes later. Luna-25 then separated from the upper-stage booster about one and a half hours into its flight.

The spacecraft will now continue its journey over several days to reach lunar orbit, where it will remain before attempting to touch down near the moon’s south pole in late August.

Getting Luna-25 safely to the moon would provide a much-needed boost for Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, which has struggled in recent years from low funding, controversial leadership and poor execution, without seeing much advancement beyond sending people and satellites to low-Earth orbit.

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