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Count your blessings. They are the 4th country to reach the Moon (albeit at 1km/s).

• zamalek 8y ago
  A successful landing, followed by rapid unplanned disassembly.
  • mr_toad 8y ago
    Unscheduled lithobraking manoeuvre.
• khuey 8y ago
  No, they would have been the 4th country to land on the moon. Both ESA and ISRO have previously conducted (intentional) impact missions.
  • chmielewski 8y ago
    khuey with the correction. Yes they would have been the 4th country to land on the moon. They settled to be the 7th country to orbit.
• droithomme 8y ago
  US, USSR, and China have successfully landed on the moon. Japan, ESA, India, and SpaceIL all have crashed on the moon (counting as reached). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_on_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_on_the_Moon
  • globuous 8y ago
    That being said, ESA landed on a comet. Which is arguably a much harder shot to make ;) literally, you shoot, wait a decade, and cross your fingers during landing ^^
    • jhayward 8y ago
      You don't so much land on a comet, as dock with it. And I think they kinda less-than-succeeded at that.
      • petschge 8y ago
        They got down at the expected speed just fine. Except that speed is enough to bounce two times if your harpoons fire but don't stick in the crust because it is even more crunchy than expected.
        • jhayward 8y ago
          As I said, a failed docking attempt.
    • pauldino 8y ago
      And even if they didn’t ever manage to land on the moon, ESA did once land on a moon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)
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