Posted on 02/04/2024 3:29:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
Japan's Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made its historic touchdown on the lunar surface. A US lunar lander has "no chance" of making a soft landing on the Moon due to a fuel leak.
We've set foot on the Moon multiple times. So why all the recent mission failures?
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DIE?
No doubt all the LGBYQYIIPP blah blah who get all the jobs whether they are salable or not. Gods hand was on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. No longer
Parent-facilitated autodidactism is where it's at.
Two reasons:
1) The missions now are unmanned. Too much reliance on automation and software and...
2) S#!t happens
What you mean “We”, BBC?
Just women?
Who is we? NASA had failures and disasters before they finally got it right.
The Japanese are new to the game.
The recent U S attempt mentioned was a private company new to the game.
One reason is because Modern engineers don’t learn anything useful in school. They don’t learn how to think critically. Just look at Boeing.
Who the hell is “we” BBC?
I think they means residents of earth.
The early space program had enormous talent to draw on in terms of pure flying talent. Some of the early astronauts made it as far as the shuttle program, like Joe Engle from the X-15 days who landed STS-2 by stick and rudder.
Computers instead of slide rules. No rounding up which gives a margin of error.
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“So why all the recent mission failures?”
DIE protocols in hiring?
Yep, not enough white guys.
We? Japan is not NASA. No one is perfect but the 60s Saturn program and moonlanding was an incredible accomplishment.
They faked it in 1969. Fake it till you make it! (BTW…we still can’t figure out how to get astronauts through the Van Allen Belts and beyond because of high cosmic radiation levels
Hollywood has had major strikes and layoffs.
C’mon man.
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