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Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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ChuckMcM wrote: post #428
abhayhegde wrote: post #360

Especially impressive when taken into account that ISRO couldn't achieve the soft-landing with Chandrayaan-2 four years ago. One of the big things they changed with this lander compared to Chandrayaan-2 was to increase the landing zone from 500mx500m to 4000mx4000m and adding more sensors and cameras to help the computer find a good landing site. For those who didn't watch live, there was another hover phase (0 m/s d…

The whole hover and look around thing was super impressive to me. That choice to spend mass on fuel for such maneuvers vs science instruments seems to always go to science in NASA debates and we end up with "either it will land here, or it will die." :-) Great outcome and I look forward to the pictures sent back by the rover!

A very large number of missions to other planets have failed because they crashed on the planet. Thus anyone who is serious about getting a mission to a different planet will put a lot of effort into the landing system. The fuel burn is cheap compared to a crash landing on the moon (as Russia just had a couple days ago). The above is even at NASA, they have done a lot of complex landing systems over the years.

Most missions have several different scientific systems on board. If any one fails well the others still make the mission a partial success. If the landing system fails they all become a failure.

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An embarrassing day for America.

The country that first visited the Moon should have explored the lunar south pole decades ago. Then the dark side of the moon. Then a manned colony.

Instead we are beaten by a foreign nation to the south pole. And our next project is a manned landing on the moon, which we already accomplished in the 1960s.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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veonik wrote: post #369
renewiltord wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could just be a misuse of infamous but could just as well be intended to refer to the fact that Man and Mankind mean the same. You need an article in front to transform "One small step for Man" into "One small step for a man" to refer to Neil himself stepping.

"One small step for a man" is what he actually said, I think, or so I've heard. Apparently the "a" was lost due to radio interference.

Wikipedia (see elsewhere for link) has good coverage of that. "A" was intended to be said, but when humans say lines like that it is common to miss a word here and there. There is no way to know for sure if he said it and the technology of the time didn't pick it up, or if he misstated his own quote.

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Post by poyu »

steno132 wrote: post #443

An embarrassing day for America. The country that first visited the Moon should have explored the lunar south pole decades ago. Then the dark side of the moon. Then a manned colony. Instead we are beaten by a foreign nation to the south pole. And our next project is a manned landing on the moon, which we already accomplished in the 1960s.

Doesn't it just all comes down to money? The US just doesn't focus on that anymore. Which is a shame, I guess.

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Post by kpandit »

steno132 wrote: post #443

An embarrassing day for America. The country that first visited the Moon should have explored the lunar south pole decades ago. Then the dark side of the moon. Then a manned colony. Instead we are beaten by a foreign nation to the south pole. And our next project is a manned landing on the moon, which we already accomplished in the 1960s.

We are doing now what you did half a century ago. How exactly is that embarrassing for you?

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Post by darkclouds »

yumraj wrote: post #363
darkclouds wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here Here. It also ironic that a country and population seen as backwards by the British Empire have overtaken the British in landing on the moon. Would be nice to see the African and South American continent achieve a moon landing as well.

> It also ironic that a country and population seen as backwards by the British Empire have overtaken the British in landing on the moon. This is not the moment to go there, but still since we're on the topic, current leaders of Britain (Prime Minister), Ireland (Taoiseach) and Scotland (First Minister) are all of Indian-Subcontinent origin. Britain and Ireland have leaders of Indian origin, while Scotland has of Pak…

I think its good, but they are poisoned chalice jobs and smacks of virtue signalling.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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kpandit wrote: post #446
steno132 wrote: post #443

An embarrassing day for America. The country that first visited the Moon should have explored the lunar south pole decades ago. Then the dark side of the moon. Then a manned colony. Instead we are beaten by a foreign nation to the south pole. And our next project is a manned landing on the moon, which we already accomplished in the 1960s.

We are doing now what you did half a century ago. How exactly is that embarrassing for you?

The US should have been to the first to the lunar south pole, not a foreign country.
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