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Re:India Acknowledges Lunar Lander Crashed by trothamel on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:02PM (#21661182)
The first lunar landings were in 1966, and didn't have computers on board. Certainly, it was possible to land without a human or even a computer.

Not having a human to support or return massively simplifies the process.

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Re:India Acknowledges Lunar Lander Crashed by capableweb on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:07PM (#21665472)
> The first lunar landings were in 1966, and didn't have computers on board. Certainly, it was possible to land without a human or even a computer.

Are you saying that the first lunar landings where made without humans or any sort of computer? I think the first landings without computers or humans were mostly impacts, not actual landings where the vessel is still intact afterwards.

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