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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (8 children)

The 2024 privately funded moon lander is doing worse than some 1970s lunar landers by America and the failed state of the USSR. God damn.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

And it's doing it for around 0,05% of the price. (~$250 billion adjusted for inflation for Apollo 1 vs ~$120 million for IM-1)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

TBF that’s a cheat. They didn’t have to be the ones investigating, researching, and developing everything to make it all work for the first time.

The science today is very well established. While it doesn’t lessen the difficulty, nobody is reinventing the wheel at full price. They’re standing on the shoulders of very well established giants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Actually they reinvented the wheel a little bit by being the first spacecraft that used cryogenic propellant for a multi day mission/moon landing. When you look into it, what they've achieved is still very impressive, even if NASA did much of the heavy lifting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Capitalism is all about efficiency. An efficient total loss is somehow a win!

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