[AnotherUnixGeek]

The lander, named Odysseus, is the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years

Practice makes perfect.

[Magnum44]

Bummer, I know one of the lead engineers and designers (and one of the founders of Intuitive Systems). Its a success and a disappointment. Space continues to be ‘hard’. Countless things can go wrong.

[teeman8r]

uh, it didn’t so much land on the lunar surface as much as crash landed... on its side.

i would hope NASA would have had a contingency in place for that... like a roll bar or something.

[bigbob]

Female operator?

[FlingWingFlyer]

These things were more successful when calculations were made with slide rules instead of cellphones and lap tops.

[Ezekiel]

it came in too fast last Thursday and the foot of one of its six legs caught on the surface, causing it to tumble over, according to company officials.

A more down-to-earth explanation is that Odysseus tripped.

[PIF]

So much for AI controlled landings.

[Ge0ffrey]

No one thought of that possibility? Was there an engineer in the house?

[daku]

Some company will one day have a maintenance/service robot to inspect failed landings, dust off solar panels and set failed landing craft upright.

[V_TWIN]

That’s what they get for not hiring Elon.

When it comes to moon landings you get what you pay for.

[Macho MAGA Man]

If you ask me they designed it wrong. Looks like they tried to land a top heavy upright refrigerator.

[Jan_Sobieski]

True Engineering is 10 failures to every 1 success because ofMurphy’s Law. Unless you lunar land in a studio…

Afunny thing happened on the way to the moon…

[Openurmind]

Probably a good thing it failed. They would have just used it to punish us here on Earth because of “lunar warming”.

They need to quit dumping money into these projects, they can’t even do them right.

[GreenHornet]

Maybe this is the moon people’s version of cow tipping.

[roving]

The whole thing looks fake.

[montag813]

Its design was always too top heavy and too tall. My engineer son mentioned this weeks ago prior to launch. Literally said “looks wobbly like a painters scaffold”

[mo]

if ya have never built a go-kart...ya know NOTHING about center-of-gravity issues...

[Libloather]

Cash for clunkers?

[frank ballenger]

They wanted to use “there are a lot of ways of this going sideways” in a sentence.