Pressure heightens for India’s lunar landing after Russian mission failure

Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976 was expected to make moonfall. Instead, Russia’s space agency reported that the remotely operated lunar lander dubbed Luna-25 crash-landed on the surface over the weekend. That leaves India’s lunar mission still in the race. To learn more, host Marco Werman spoke to Benjamin Silverstein. He’s a research analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and joins the show from Washington.