Astrobotic's privately built moon lander
suffers potentially crippling anomaly
after launch
Posted By: Sully, 1/9/2024 9:19:16 AM
After a successful launch early Monday, engineers checking out the robotic Peregrine moon lander ran into problems keeping the spacecraft properly oriented, a potentially crippling issue for the first U.S. lunar lander since the Apollo program more than 50 years ago.
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Astrobotic's privately built moon lander
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After a successful launch early Monday, engineers checking out the robotic Peregrine moon lander ran into problems keeping the spacecraft properly oriented, a potentially crippling issue for the first U.S. lunar lander since the Apollo program more than 50 years ago.
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Today's workforce can't put a rock on the Moon when our country's 1960s workforce put men there and got them back safely 6 times. My Father worked on Apollo, and the component he designed flew in that spaceship. We could travel to the moon in 1969 because we had an actual education system and competitive workforce. Maybe we need a 100% DEI space mission. Nothing else. Just DEI. DEI engineers. DEI Astronauts. DEI project managers. And a DEI funeral home incase they recover the bodies.