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nanumbat on April 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?

Yes on Ranger, however the first Surveyor completed a soft landing and returned image data.

m4rtink on April 29, 2023 [–]

Yep - and Rangers were designed as a crash probe that took pictures for as long as possible. Still IIRC some Surveyors did crash later on.

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