Space mystery: NASA baffled after India moon lander disappears without trace

Express ^ | 24 Oct 2019 | Sean Martin

[oh8eleven]

Things took a disastrous turn when India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft attempted to land on the Moon on September 6. As it approached the Moon’s south pole, where it had planned to land in order to confirm the presence of water ice, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the machine. It was presumed the machine crashed into lunar surface but after more than a month of searching, there has been no evidence of Chandrayaan-2 found

[oh8eleven]

And to think we did it sucessfully, multiple times, fifty year ago using slide rules and Tang.

[Magnum44]

And to think we did it sucessfully, multiple times, fifty year ago using slide rules and Tang.

Don't forget Velcro. Never would have done it without that. ;)

[BenLurkin]

[samtheman]

Probably a victim of a one eyed one horn flying purple Chandra eater.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Are they sure there aren’t any NEW craters on the moon? The craft could be embedded in the moon’s surface.

[JohnBrowdie]

hillary clinton killed the lunar rover!

[Michael.SF.]

IBTWHG

[Bringbackthedraft]

The locals found it and dragged it into their underground city to determine it’s origin, and to confirm they are not alone in the vastness of space?

[Spruce]

Please try to turn it off and wait 30 seconds then turn it back on. Thank you

[z3n]

Probably a victim of a one eyed one horn flying purple Chandra eater.

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or Gary Condit

[HamiltonJay]

As bad as software is written by most Indians I have worked with, I’m personally amazed it made it to the moon before they lost contact...

[pfflier]

And to think we did it sucessfully, multiple times, fifty year ago using slide rules and Tang.

...And an education system quantum leaps above what we have today...

[The Sons of Liberty]

Built by a bunch of H1B wannabes.

[_Jim]

Shot “out of the air” by the secret Nazi moon base at the S. pole.

[jimmygrace]

Glad they tried it unmanned first. It’s hard to get to the moon. It shows how amazing NASA used to be when they were focused on legitimate science and not leftist climate change fantasy.

[jughandle]

They attempted to land at night! Never find it in the dark...

[Who is John Galt?]

Great article - loved the part about “Israel’s unscrewed Beresheet spacecraft” (although I have no idea what an ‘unscrewed spacecraft’ might be ;^)...

[oh8eleven]

And an education system quantum leaps above what we have today...
Greatest Generation indeed.

[kosciusko51]

Built by a bunch of H1B wannabes.

Technically, it was designed by a bunch of H1B wannabes, and built by Americans...

[_Jim]

re: “Are they sure there aren’t any NEW craters on the moon? The craft could be embedded in the moon’s surface.”

Seeings as the “retros” braked the speed of the lander (this is a lander, remember) as it approached the surface; how much of a ‘crater’ do you think it left?