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First China, then Israel - now India is landing on the moon in 2019
Sylvia Else wrote on Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:50:29
+1000: On 30/03/2019 6:33 am, wrote: "The race for the moon is back on – and Asia has an early lead. Already this year China has landed Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon, while Israel’s Beresheet is currently in lunar orbit and scheduled to put a lander on its near side on April 11. Now India is on the cusp of making a daring attempt to land on the near side of the moon close to its south pole. Chandrayaan-2 (chandrayaan means ‘moon vehicle' in Sanskrit) is an ambitious mission from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that involves an orbiter and a lander, the latter of which will unleash a lunar rover called 'Vikram’ to take measurements and map the surface." See: https://www.techradar.com/news/first...e-moon-in-2019 The moon sure is a popular destination lately. Don't these people realise that the race was definitively won, fifty years ago? Their unmanned machines do not impress. Especially when they go on an American rocket... -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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First China, then Israel – now India is landing on the moon in 2019
On Sunday, April 21, 2019 at 1:50:31 AM UTC-4, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 30/03/2019 6:33 am, wrote: "The race for the moon is back on – and Asia has an early lead. Already this year China has landed Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon, while Israel’s Beresheet is currently in lunar orbit and scheduled to put a lander on its near side on April 11. Now India is on the cusp of making a daring attempt to land on the near side of the moon close to its south pole. Chandrayaan-2 (chandrayaan means ‘moon vehicle' in Sanskrit) is an ambitious mission from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that involves an orbiter and a lander, the latter of which will unleash a lunar rover called 'Vikram’ to take measurements and map the surface." See: https://www.techradar.com/news/first...e-moon-in-2019 The moon sure is a popular destination lately. Don't these people realise that the race was definitively won, fifty years ago? Their unmanned machines do not impress. But why not do more science? No one had landed on the far side until recently, and no one had yet at the poles. |
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