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Oops: Failed U.S. Moon Lander Now Hurtling Back TOWARDS Earth
Breitbart ^ | 15 Jan 2024 | Simon Kent

Posted on 01/15/2024 9:25:34 AM PST by fwdude

The NASA-backed Peregrine One moon lander is now hurtling back towards Earth after last week failing on its historic journey.

Astrobotic, which had been hoping to hoping to land the first American-made spacecraft on the Moon in more than 50 years, predicts its spacecraft will likely burn up in the atmosphere in the next few days, the BBC reports.

Experts had been working with NASA and other space companies to find the most safe and responsible way of ending Peregrine’s mission.

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To: fwdude

If it exceeded escape velocity before the engine failed then it won’t “fall to Earth”. It’ll just orbit. Nice clickbait try though. I doubt there’s a single journalist who understands orbital mechanics.


41 posted on 01/15/2024 11:31:56 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: TexasFreeper2009

In 1969 we got the best CGI that was available at the time. We were all a bunch of dummies and believed it. 😏


42 posted on 01/15/2024 11:34:37 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Red Badger
Rocket Surgery is hard....................

LOL! In flight missile repair has even more challenges.
43 posted on 01/15/2024 11:39:10 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: fwdude

It was sabotage when they found out the lunar lander was going to drop human remains on the moon surface.

44 posted on 01/15/2024 11:46:09 AM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: fwdude

I shot an arrow into the sky .....


45 posted on 01/15/2024 12:22:15 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: fwdude

Double toasted?

Human ashes, pet hair among items headed to Moon on Monday launch

https://news.yahoo.com/human-ashes-pet-hair-among-231209607.html


46 posted on 01/15/2024 12:24:51 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: KC Burke
You are just confirming the incompetence of the journalists matches the incompetence of NASA.

Astrobotic Technology, a private company designed the lander. NASA only provided the launch vehicle (which worked as advertised) .

The reporting, as usual, was sensationally abysimal.

47 posted on 01/15/2024 12:30:36 PM PST by pfflier
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To: fwdude

The last time the U.S. launched a moon-landing mission was in December 1972.It should be easier now...

48 posted on 01/15/2024 12:34:34 PM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
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To: fwdude

The last time the U.S. launched a moon-landing mission was in December 1972.

It should be easier now...

49 posted on 01/15/2024 12:35:32 PM PST by GOPJ (FoxNews Lawrence Jones needs to visit Black, Hispanic and Asian breakfast places too.Let's get real)
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To: fwdude

50 posted on 01/15/2024 12:36:23 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

Hey!!! See post 6.


51 posted on 01/15/2024 12:40:42 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“We were all a bunch of dummies and believed it.” Please visit the Columbia Space Center in Downey, CA, for a few hours or read Gray’s Angle of Attack and learn about the thirty companies and four hundred thousand skilled employees in every state who successfully built six Mercury flights, twelve Gemini flights and seventeen Apollo flights.


52 posted on 01/15/2024 12:47:49 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: fwdude

The Biden Curse


53 posted on 01/15/2024 1:01:30 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

All the good producers and directors are dead—with all the affirmative action in Hollywood these days they couldn’t even produce a convincing fake.

;-)


54 posted on 01/15/2024 1:03:53 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Falconspeed

The skilled employees all built components.

They have no clue how they were actually used.

They believed what they were told—just like everybody else did back then when we were naive.


55 posted on 01/15/2024 1:05:35 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: EnderWiggin1970
The other day I was curious about the Artemis project to return to the moon. So I found the official NASA website: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/">https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/.

Don't view it while eating or drinking anything. Odds are you will spew or choke on the opening paragraph, I kid you not.

Great, p*ssy hats and BLM on the moon. Now we’re spreading leftist insanity into space.

56 posted on 01/15/2024 1:33:55 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: AndyJackson

Awright everybody, what are your requests for where/who this thing lands?

I’ve a long bloody list.


57 posted on 01/15/2024 1:36:47 PM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: SeekAndFind
Betcha this American Moon Lander costs 10 times more than the one made by India that successfully landed on the dark side of the moon.

Well, give the NASA team a break. It’s difficult to succeed when you spend all day every day staring at your genitals, trying figure out what “gender” you are.

58 posted on 01/15/2024 1:39:22 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: GOPJ
"The last time the U.S. launched a moon-landing mission was in December 1972."

It should be easier now...

Kind of like elections. We knew by Election Night 40 years ago, with paper ballots and a very manual process.

Now, with lightning-fast technology, it takes days or weeks to know who "won."

59 posted on 01/15/2024 1:45:40 PM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: cgbg
The skilled employees all built components.

They have no clue how they were actually used.

They believed what they were told—just like everybody else did back then when we were naive.

I’m sorry, but you hand the Left on a silver platter the ammunition to attack us as dumb, backward hicks when you spout utter nonsense like “We didn’t land on the moon.” And frankly, in cases like this I would agree with them.

It’s tiresome to have to constantly rebut nutter theories about the moon landings being faked, or the Earth being flat, or a hundred others. Good grief people, how is that any better than the insane Leftists believing that a man can become a woman? STOP already.

60 posted on 01/15/2024 1:53:36 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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