Why would it be considered “historic”?
Is it the first time man has landed a space craft on a non-earth object (no)?
Is it the first time man has landed on Mars (no)?
Is the space craft carrying a human or even an animal (no)?
So ... what is so historic?
First major space mission since NASA’s primary objective was changed from space exploration to preventing Islamophobia?
it’s not historic yet. But it will be in a few minutes...
They didn’t screw it up.
It’s historic because it’s been done so few times, and it’s difficult to do.
Russia has tried many times to put a spacecraft on Mars and failed.
Historic- adjective
Famous or important in history, or potentially so.
“we are standing on a historic site”
synonyms:significant, notable, important, momentous, consequential, memorable, newsworthy.
Ok?
Would you have them do Muslim outreach, instead?
Hope'd we'd be able to jump planet by now or at least have retirement centers on Luna.
(maybe they painted it black?)