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Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade (mashable.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been binging on For All Mankind and it's been a great reminder of how difficult space exploration actually is and how quickly things can go wrong.

The fact that they accomplished their goal of pinpoint landing within 10 meters of their target should be the lede.

I bet people in the industry are amazed by this accomplishment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

It's the sad part of science communication. The pop culture sees difficulties and failures as indictments of character. In science, failures are the fuel of progress. In this case, especially in scientific circles, this was a massive success and is being celebrated as such. The upside down part is laughed at as just the price of making the unimaginable, possible. But most publications who don't belong to science journalism just don't understand.