Awesome news! Go India! 🇮🇳
Why is this awesome news?
Humanity successfully landed another object safety on a celestial object hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Earth. Of course that’s impressive.
Plus, they succeeded where Russia failed, which is at least mildly amusing.
Being fair, they did land some things on the Moon before while part of the USSR. Though it is nice to see a new nation get a first for something relating to the Moon.
Yes, this says more about India than about Russia.
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Why isn’t it awesome news? Humanity landed another thing on the moon.
It seems like it shouldn’t be that hard in 2023 compared to 1969.
Landing in the moon’s polar region is much harder than landing in the equatorial region. This is the first successful landing on the moon’s South Pole.
Luna-25 was also aiming for the poles; the Russians already know how to do a normal lunsr landing.
While I understand your headspace. Space isn’t easy even with modern tech for any nation (or company in the case of the private launch sector). They didn’t have the benefit of the Space Race injecting mad money and manpower like the US and the USSR did (shit is hard to justify spending money on while still being on the newer side of certain industrial development as a nation). They also had to make their own systems to get there. Even SpaceX still has failures to land their first stage boosters after getting it pretty well figured out. Just a crazy amount of variables means it will fail majorly if any random one is wrong. Even if they had failed to land, it would still be worth some respect for even getting on target. I think that once AI is much more mature (and not just a large language model that tends to just make shit up that sounds correct but isn’t), then I think your stance would be more correct. As the ship itself would be able to deal with all of it with or without input from earth. Would also be better at making the tough calls to abort or proceed without any emotions/stress causing bad decisions.
What di you mean. There was no real time control. Landing instructions were provided well ahead of time and onboard systems too control through out from 30kms to touch down including the precise spot which was done from 800meters off.
I dont know how many would classify that as AI but it was an autonomous system landing.
For India, a nation which is still working on getting flush toilets everywhere?
So if i land a shoe there it would be awesome?
What’s with the misery?
It would.
I think you guys should pay attention to more important things than someone landing his shoes somewhere
If a person without a nation state’s budget behind him can land an object even one the size of a shoe on the moon that would be a major scientific breakthrough and an incredible engineering achievement.
Simply the economics of the feat would basically instantly revolutionise a whole host of industries. Even spaceX who’s whole thing is making the economics of space reasonable is nowhere close .
We put humans there 50 years ago, landing a shoe won’t achieve anything other than boost someone ego
You know what is implied in the ability to land a shoe on the moon, right?
Whoever threw it up there has an amazing pitching arm?
You don’t get to dictate what’s important and what’s not
I don’t, logic does. If india were to take care of the poverty plaguing the country and shit like the caste system in a bunch of years the space program and all sort of research would benefit for the universal wealth produced by a fair society
Yes.
Good luck doing that though.
Yes, but it would be more awesome if I curbstomped your empty head under my shoe. You are a real life clown that lives outside a circus.
Congratulations on all your hard work India. Ride the wave. It’s a great accomplishment.
All of the kids are holding up pictures of an american space shuttle that isn’t even designed to land on the moon. But its good that those kids have something to look up to.
The space shuttle is very photogenic 🤷
True, it was the sexiest spacecraft humanity has done so far. Now we only have flying space dicks, sometimes with some smaller space dicks attached to its sides. Quite poetic.
Yeah, feels like we have taken a step back almost, we went from Apollo to shuttle and back to basically Apollo as far as overall look.
The closest thing to the shuttle that has a planned Q1 2024 launch date is Dreamchaser. It’s much smaller than the shuttle and not nearly as capable, but it at least looks cooler and lands like the shuttle.
If you look closer, you can see that the space shuttle is actually riding on a giant flying space dick, with two smaller flying space dicks attached on the sides.
True. Unfortunately it seems like the shuttle design is not as perfoment as the traditional rockets. Maybe when we have orbital platforms.
At least they’re not wearing NASA t-shirts.
Isn’t that this cool and hip fashion brand?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Three other nations — the US, China, and the former Soviet Union — have all previously achieved a soft landing near the Moon’s equator, a safer region with (comparatively) amiable temperatures and terrain and reliable sunlight to recharge solar-powered instruments.
By contrast, much of the Moon’s southern pole is littered with deep craters and basins that are permanently shrouded in darkness.
The extreme conditions in these “cold traps” make remote observation from Earth difficult and present problems for operating sensitive equipment in the region.
The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft took 22 days to enter the Moon’s orbit on August 5th, following its launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on July 14th.
On August 17th, the Vikram lander carrying Pragyan — a lunar ground rover — successfully separated from its propulsion module in preparation for today’s soft landing.
The mission marks India’s second attempt at a lunar landing after the Chandrayaan-2 lander crashed into the Moon’s surface back in 2019.
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So what has that slacker been doing since then? Has it quantified the amount of water (as ice) located in the fissures at the south pole?
Get busy little robot - we have no time for dallying.
Welcome to the club, India!
My only note is that you might want to get a bit more creative when choosing a name (Chandrayaan means “moon craft” or “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit).
I mean USA names it after moon god, Russia just calls it moon so its as creative as the rest
So sounds like… a good name?
It’s really no less inventive than Apollo.
Welcome to… what club? India has landed people on moon long ago.
Congrats to India