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Reassuringly anachronistic to use acres as a unit of measure on the moon.
It's an official unit of the only flag on the Moon to date. What else would you suggest?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220725003858/https://www.space...
It's interesting how this feels like a big deal; when I learned of this yesterday, I almost forgot that there have been almost 30 missions to Mars (which I assume is much harder and more expensive) in the years since the last moon landing.
> which I assume is much harder and more expensive Manned space missions are significantly more expensive (and complicated) than robotic missions. (Otherwise, we'd be sending a lot more people into space.) Let's do a little bit of back-of-the-envelope Googling: From https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo > The United States spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973, or approximately $…
Mars is orders of magnitude harder to land on because of its atmosphere, stronger gravity, and the need to keep your robot healthy on the long trip over.
Ridiculous this isn't more prominent in mainstream news. Eg. I open Google News to stories of killers and a new real estate tax and some sort of scandal by an actor. This is why I come to HN instead.
The private lander's mission control looks like the proverbial two-pizza team. Would it that the silent revolution in spaceflight, hidden under the glamour of reusable rockets, is incredibly sophisticated telemetry, communication, on-board automation? A computing stack that's making the 1x mission control a 10x mission control? I understand there will be other teams elsewhere (delivery vehicle, remote sensing etc. et…
better, lighter-weight computing stacks have been a huge boost; that's what made cubesats possible. but the much bigger deal is the dramatic drop in launch costs driven by spacex, even though so far that's only a factor of 3.4 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-e... with lightweight computers driven by the cellphone industry, it became possible for a small team or even individual to launch a l…
Ridiculous this isn't more prominent in mainstream news. Eg. I open Google News to stories of killers and a new real estate tax and some sort of scandal by an actor. This is why I come to HN instead.
Reuters: See the right part of the image https://imgur.com/VpGAIBl
CNN: https://imgur.com/TzRtit8
AP News: https://imgur.com/OgrtzrC
NBC: Not so apparent but there https://imgur.com/7itvGeh
NYT: Also not obvious https://imgur.com/4DMDqr0
NPR: Gotta scroll: https://imgur.com/dp5UDCq
I found it on Fox News by search and it's a fair scroll down. I also found in MSNBC by search, but actually don't know where it is just that the word "moon" exists somewhere on that page and for the life of me I cannot see what word is highlighted.
Ridiculous this isn't more prominent in mainstream news. Eg. I open Google News to stories of killers and a new real estate tax and some sort of scandal by an actor. This is why I come to HN instead.
Edit: Front page of a few sites Reuters: See the right part of the image https://imgur.com/VpGAIBl CNN: https://imgur.com/TzRtit8 AP News: https://imgur.com/OgrtzrC NBC: Not so apparent but there https://imgur.com/7itvGeh NYT: Also not obvious https://imgur.com/4DMDqr0 NPR: Gotta scroll: https://imgur.com/dp5UDCq I found it on Fox News by search and it's a fair scroll down. I also found in MSNBC by search, but actual…
Landing in ~ 8 hours. "The Odysseus moon lander is aiming for a 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) lunar landing" https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-landi...
Pretty cheeky of Columbia to sponsor this. They couldn't even make the shoes I bought that were 'absolutely waterproof' actually waterproof. A super light rain would result in wet feet. This didn't even happen in normal sneakers. But it is all about image I guess.
Landing in ~ 8 hours. "The Odysseus moon lander is aiming for a 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) lunar landing" https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-landi...
Pretty cheeky of Columbia to sponsor this. They couldn't even make the shoes I bought that were 'absolutely waterproof' actually waterproof. A super light rain would result in wet feet. This didn't even happen in normal sneakers. But it is all about image I guess.