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It was flipped upside-down like a Turtle?
by koolala 2y ago
It was flipped upside-down like a Turtle?
- itishappy 2y agoSideways. Still functional, but in somewhat limited capacity.
- adityaathalye 2y agoSo... the mission literally went sideways? Yet, our indomitable heroes saved the day! Jokes apart, I think anybody getting anything off the ground and out of the planetary gravity well are heroes. It's kind of wild how... mundane... rocketry has become. Between that and always-on nearly-free global video calling from a smart watch, I feel like I'm living in the future of some of the 1950s SciFi books I read as a kid. "Kings of Space" by Capt. W. E. Johns comes to mind. The smell of that old paperback copy I have transports me to another time.
- inamberclad 2y agoThat was a separate lander, from Japan!
- somenameforme 2y agoWell how else do you expect to be able to keep the Moon up?