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No organization ever managed to land on the moon so far on the first try. My guess is that this won't be any different.
by age_bronze 7y ago
No organization ever managed to land on the moon so far on the first try. My guess is that this won't be any different.
- kaycebasques 7y agoMaybe they have the benefit of learning from the failures of other countries? Not sure how much space agencies share information with each other.
- msaharia 7y agoNo organization had ever put an orbiter around Mars in their first try. Until Mars Orbiter Mission of ISRO in 2014. I wouldn't rule them out. ;) https://www.isro.gov.in/mars-orbiter-mission-completes-1000-days-orbit https://www.isro.gov.in/mars-orbiter-mission-completes-1000-...
- vishnugupta 7y agoInterestingly, India is the first country to successfully send a Mars probe on the first attempt.
- trothamel 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1 The US series of surveyor probes landed on the moon on the first try. I think it's reasonable to argue that these were the first US attempts to land on the moon - while the Ranger probes had seismometer capsules with retrorockets, they were meant to crash into the moon at 150 miles per hour and survive.
- smbullet 7y agoHmm this is a really morbid thought but I wonder when we'll see the first person die on the moon. Will it be an astronaut or a civilian? What would be different today if the Apollo 11 crew never came back?