- cross-posted to:
- astronomy@mander.xyz
- space@lemmy.world
- becomeme@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- astronomy@mander.xyz
- space@lemmy.world
- becomeme@sh.itjust.works
Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade::undefined
Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade::undefined
… because it’s literally rocket science?
I’m not saying it’s easy, or that I could do better, but multi national attempts, how many billions of dollars, surely we have to have enough tech to do this with proper fail safes by now.
I can’t find much detailing what went wrong, but the main points seem to be that they achieve most accurate landing ever, and were still able to deploy the baseball robot things, which sounds like a win to me.
https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c5851d0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2552x1914+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=https:%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2024%2F01%2F18%2Ftransformer-moon-robot-jaxa-ddeed64a642e82140d690f646e57e47543ee315a.jpg
Wasn’t aware of that, makes sense, def sounds like a win