India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try

Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by JohnJamesRambo on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:49AM (#20497481)

We actually aren’t that sure if we could do an Apollo again at all in modern times.

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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by meddlepal on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:53AM (#20497505)

Please explain because unless the Laws of Physics changed in the last 50 years I don't see how that could possibly be true.

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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by JohnJamesRambo on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:40AM (#20499027)

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610720/why-getting-back-t...

https://www.space.com/7015-40-years-moon-landing-hard.html

Lots of the know how, resources, and people are gone forever. Just because we have lots of computers now doesn’t solve all problems. Apollo was an incredible feat of humanity. There’s a reason no other country has ever sent humans to the moon, it’s really hard.

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