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Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade (mashable.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's such a harsh message to propagate, though. A lot of these smaller countries have been really pushing their space programs, and they don't need "LOL, lander upside-down" memes to accent their recent failure any further.

At this rate, Japan may be able to actually land on the moon in a few more years, take some great pictures, and shove Mashable's "space photo of the decade" quote directly up their ass. Where it belongs.

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago

I've been binging on For All Mankind and it's been a great reminder of how difficult space exploration actually is and how quickly things can go wrong.

The fact that they accomplished their goal of pinpoint landing within 10 meters of their target should be the lede.

I bet people in the industry are amazed by this accomplishment.

[–] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 9 points 9 months ago

Yep, totally agree

I clicked on this post hoping to see something cool. Didn't realise they were being pricks.

Getting shit into space is impressive, full stop. Ridiculing failure on the frontier is just sad.