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RE: Israeli Moon Probe crash lands on Moon
It took the USA & USSR over 30 attempts to land a probe on the Moon.
That's a very very disingenuous statistic.
It took the USA & USSR over 30 attempts to land a probe on the Moon.
That's a very very disingenuous statistic.
Why? It’s quite correct. Israel was using completely new hardware costing less than 10% of previous attempts so it was effectively starting from scratch, just like the USA & USSR did in the 50s.
It shows how hard space is, even with unlimited state budgets.
Musk also failed 4 times before his first successful launch.
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You have a right to be proud and I am not trying to take away from that. However it is simply not comparable to what was going in the the late 50's and early 60's.
How is buying a payload launch services from Musk's SpaceX even remotely like how things were 60 years ago?
Let me get this correct. You are claiming "Look first try!" while pointing out precious failures with the very launch service that was used? Would not those "failures' have to count toward this attempt? How can it be a first try then?
Anyways, it is still a awesome thing so be proud! But it's just not the same as building rockets that no one had ever done before.
ps. Also from the very link you referenced in the OP there were only 10 previous attempts to land on the moon before the Russians finally pulled it off in 1966, not 30.
Your point about launch failure is fair but the lunar orbit and impact or missions were pre-cursors to landing and should be counted amongst failures.
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Sure, but they were also precursors to this landing (attempt) too. Still, space is hard and this was a historical attempt nonetheless.