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Originally Posted by Sluggo
The lander uses Hydrazine which is extremely toxic and its NASA we are talking about here... they need to throw all their money into the ballooning budget of the James Webb telescope  . I'm sure they did many tests in vacuum chambers on the thrusters and many of the systems in computer simulations.
Also, if they did do demo landing tests on Earth I'm sure everybody would be showing those clips before the actual landings instead of computer animations. |
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Originally Posted by photon
Simulating the different gravity being the most difficult challenge |
Ok, I can accept all that, but you two are missing the key point - imagine how cool it would look to see the landing process from a camera in a drone capturing the entire thing!