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The second is landing and roving on the Moon, as Chang'e 3 did in 2013 and Chang'e 4 did in 2019 (The rover still being active as of 2024). The third is collecting lunar samples from the near-side and far-side of the moon and sending them to Earth , a task accomplished by Chang'e 5 in 2020 and by Chang'e 6 mission in 2024.
The speed of a crash landing on its surface is typically between 70 and 100% of the escape velocity of the target moon, and thus this is the total velocity which must be shed from the target moon's gravitational attraction for a soft landing to occur. For Earth's Moon, the escape velocity is 2.38 kilometres per second (1.48 mi/s). [14]
The IM-1 Odysseus's "rough" soft Moon landing was the first soft lunar landing of any kind for an American-made spacecraft since Apollo 17 in 1972, [9] setting the stage for IM-2 to launch no earlier than late February 2025. [3] [4]
As Elon Musk's new Department of Government Efficiency works to reduce government spending by eliminating waste and cutting diversity programs, his SpaceX corporation currently has a multibillion ...
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Lunar escape systems (LESS) were a series of emergency vehicles designed for never-flown long-duration Apollo missions. Because these missions were more hypothetical than the planned cancelled Apollo missions , the designs were never constructed.
The most jaw-dropping one is Barkley catching a 3rd-and-6 swing pass at Iowa, jumping over a first-team All-American cornerback and breaking another tackle in midair to keep a key fourth-quarter ...
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive is a 2019 point-and-click adventure survival video game set in a post-apocalypse scenario, developed by Polish indie developer Mateusz Sokalszczuk (also known by his online handle scriptwelder) and published by Armor Games. [2] The game uses a pixel art style, [3] and received positive reviews from critics.