US sent a bunch of these things to the moon, and none (besides those that were planned to crash) of them crashed.
Perhaps this is a good metaphor of these nations.
Perhaps this is a good metaphor of these nations.
Yeah, that US has a far more sophisticated obscuration and propaganda system in place.
As one of the earlier replies shows, there were many failures of the US space program.
And not one of them crash-landed. All that in the 1960's.
There was also one unintentional crash landing of Surveyor-2 (the other 6 Surveyor landed softly).
Pioneer 1
Pioneer 2
Pioneer 3
Pioneer 4
Pioneer P-3
Pioneer P-30
Pioneer P-31
Ranger 3
That's not the end of the list I just got bored.
And who knows, perhaps the USA couldn't do it either in 2023.
Can we just agree that India's Chandrayaan-3 will be a huge moment for humans? The first touch down, and in an unexplored interesting region in most of our lifetimes.
It wasn't a spin, it was just a refusal to accept your moving the goalposts.
>Can we just agree that India's Chandrayaan-3 will be a huge moment for humans?
Sure, and I have nothing against India's space achievements. India should have shown more backbone in the UN votes against Russia's invasion, though, so they're not entirely benevolent right now.
But there's no comparison to Russia's crimes, of course. They are far worse.
Moving goal posts! Were on the topic of missions to land the south pole of the moon.
You move the goal posts from landing on the south pole to any mission to the moon and add in a caveat of 100 success rate.
Disproven there you claim if the mission didn't leave earth orbit it's not relevant. Disproven there.
You move the goal posts to entirely to UN votes!
Hahahaha what on earth are you smoking?!
I for one will look forwards to India pulling this off, an achievement no other nation has managed..not even the US.
That would be sci-fi dream come true.