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Or maybe a successful landing was only a bonus and the whole thing can actually be viewed as a success because it will provide with tons of data and metrics for the engineers to poke at in the future, which will in turn make future missions more interesting and smooth.

No need to be cynical at all cost.

It's the Kerbal way - when your rescue mission for a rescue mission for a rescue mission fails, and you now have 10 astronauts stranded on the Mün, just call it "establishing a colony" and be done with it.

> Mün

That's almost exactly how Scott Manley says it.

Well, even in the small quote you mention, it has arguments on why it is a success. So they definitely not "just called it a success". They explained why they think that.