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  • drivebyhooting0 minutes ago
    Several times the speed of sound? That is meaningless when there is no media for the sound waves. I think a better unit might be furlongs per fortnight.
  • LeoPanthera36 minutes ago
    &quot;List of artificial objects on the Moon&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_artificial_objects_on_the_Moon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_artificial_objects_on_...</a><p>It&#x27;s a lot more than you might think, and I couldn&#x27;t find a comprehensive list of the non-spacecraft objects, some of which are hinted at in the first paragraph.
    • Polizeiposaune16 minutes ago
      The later Apollo missions (13-17) deliberately crashed their 3rd stages into the moon, in part to provide a signal for the seismometer packages left at each of the landing sites. They hit the moon a little faster than the Falcon 9 2nd stage will hit (2.6km&#x2F;s vs 2.43km&#x2F;s for the new one).<p>All of those impact sites have been located but the last one wasn&#x27;t pinpointed until 2016: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;moon-mystery-solved-apollo-rocket-impact-site-finally-found&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;moon-mystery-solved-apollo-rock...</a>
  • anticensor1 hour ago
    Let&#x27;s make it intentional and controlled then.
  • trueno58 minutes ago
    inb4 wreckage on the moon that stays there forever
  • spwa444 minutes ago
    What I think is very ironic is that Blue Origin actually beat SpaceX to Mars, after a decade of SpaceX &quot;make life multiplanetary&quot;. A few months after Blue Origin did that SpaceX announced now they&#x27;ll just go to the Moon, no more Mars.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;nasa-blue-origin-launch-two-spacecraft-to-study-mars-solar-wind&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;nasa-blue-origin-launch-tw...</a>
    • dmix36 minutes ago
      That article says that Rocket Lab is building the spacecraft designed by NASA. Blue Origin is just launching it.<p>Falcon Heavy launched a spacecraft that used a Mars gravity assist in 2023 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Psyche_(spacecraft)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Psyche_(spacecraft)</a> same with the Europa Clipper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Europa_Clipper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Europa_Clipper</a> going to Jupiter