How Do You Deliver a 8,600-Pound Lunar Lander... to the Moon...

[Sparweb]

(First, a friendly nod to acknowledge WKTaylor's similarly-titled thread last week.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1rCCrW9NU

I understand that no Moon lander in the 5 years since Chandrayaan-3 has completed its landing without incident or accident, and none have included an autonomous rover.

 

[WKTaylor]

Ahem... SW... Your video-link was the same one that I posted for the Europa Clipper... perhaps there was another You meant to post for the 'Chandrayaan-3'?

Regards, Wil Taylor
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[Sparweb]

Dammit

Right after watching the video you linked, the next vid suggested to me by YT looked similar - but from the other side of the world...
I must have been giggling too much.

 

[WKTaylor]

India is pretty proud of their 'agile space program'... just like all the other independent companies entering the business full-speed-ahead... and rightfully so for their unmanned accomplishments.

Too bad NASA had to explore/invent/experience/document/etc hundreds-of-thousands-of lessons learned in space... first.

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