There is a new small crater on the moon, courtesy of Japan.
“It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface,” ispace said in a statement.
The company said its engineers were working to establish why the landing had failed.
“Although we do not expect to complete the lunar landing at this time, we believe that we have fully accomplished the significance of this mission, having acquired a great deal of data and experience,” ispace CEO and founder Takeshi Hakamada said.
“What is important is to feed this knowledge and learning back to Mission 2 and beyond,” he added.
Was that Kamikaze 1
Mission One proofs first
Show Me
The landing didn’t fail…it just wasn’t optimal!
The command pilot was probably an old Tokyo cab driver!
They just needed those black female mathematicians that Disney claimed were responsible for the success of our Apollo program.
In 1969 the world had Engineers, analogue, Vac Tubes, Slide Rules, Math & BALLS.
In 2023 the world has Software engineers, Digital, Chips, Supercomputers, Maff & Ball-Less “Men”.
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54 Years of going backwards.
It is actually Funny.
Soooo, the man-in-the-moon now has a dimple??
I bet if it was a 1994 Honda civic full of Pokemon Dolls they would have stuck the landing with flying colors… or a flying red dot… meh
/Salute
Jellybean,
a Crev-ASS
Did I call it or what?
Loco this morning:
They don’t normally land shit, they kamikaze into things…
“From Pearl Harbor to Sea of Tranquility”
Bonsai!
Please everyone, understand how crazy HARD trips to the Moon truly are. No way Apollo was real. 50+ years later and we cannot even land a toy on the Moon.
It landed alright, hard. Who’s going to clean up this mess, are they going to send a moon Roomba?
Shouldn’t Future Moon Recons in 4K from Orbit show the wreckage sites, all of them, in High Definition Detail.
Like that Trump Won Flag?
@Toenex — Now, there’s an entertaining thought: vacuum cleaner effectiveness in an atmosphere-free environment. (-:
Will the project lead commit Seppuku?
I hope they didn’t experience a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Sad to see those faces, while waiting for any further landing communication that never came (so far).
Might want to use the Hubble to validate whether it toppled over or some other development that might be corrected. At the end of the televised video most all appeared defeated and quickly resolved to its fate. However, this has not yet been completely confirmed.
If this was an all-American project, I really don’t think there would be so quick of a resolve to give up hope.
That American fire can always be sensed in everything most Americans do and have done, and continue to do. That is: the NEVER GIVE UP attitude that apparently, some say, is thought to be delivered after birth in our mother’s milk.
But, that’s just one American’s opinion.
Those little bastards sure made some great stereo equipment back in the 70’s.
And optics, Dr. Hambone. I have a set of Occupied Nipper bi-noc-u-lars that are pretty good shit.
@ Erik
I have one of those ‘Occupied Japan’ Mini spy cameras.
Yup, have same minox camera knockoff made in occupied Japan, uses 16MM movie film that you have to spool from bulk in total darkness. Great stuff.
Makes the Apollo missions all the more miracles of U.S. success!
Mr.Pinko, I will always be fascinated by what we accomplished going to the moon less than 70 years after man’s First Flight.
And only 20ish years after the invention of the transistor.
Incredible.
Americans were on top of the world & on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin is the bravest man still alive today.