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doodlesdev on April 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?

Show that landing gear that can handle an impact at 1km/s, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of nation states out there that would be interested.

sephamorr on April 30, 2023 [–]

It's less unreasonable than you think. The Ranger 1 spacecraft attempted to land a payload with an impactor before the US had figured out how to land more carefully.

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