• El Barto@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t you think that the fact that the mission was unmanned meant that they knew that they’re not ready for manned ones yet? So nobody was rushing, as you put it.

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      1 year ago

      Crewed vs uncrewed is a decision made at the very beginning of the planning stages, years ago. These days a crew is just a gigantic extra expense on a mission with little return. Remotely operated missions can achieve all their scientific objectives.

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      1 year ago

      Manned lunar lander is a mich complex piece of technology which needs to be developed from scratch. It also needs a much more powerful rocket which Russia don’t have either. It’s at least a decade of extra R&D time even if they get all the funding they need and magically get rid of corruption (which obviously won’t happen).

      It’s unmanned not because they chose it but because they are literally incapable of making a manned mission (at the very least for a couple of generations).

    • 0Empty0@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What? It clearly states in the article they knew it was risky… I would consider that rushing.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but it’s not rushing as in “let’s skip steps of the plan for the sake of time,” like it happened with, say, oceangate. It was a calculated risk.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but it was a weird comment. It sounded like saying “don’t forget to eat your veggies” in an article about salad prepping.