Only 1,600 feet above the lunar surface, with warning alarms sounding and fuel rapidly depleting, the success of the Apollo 11 landing relied heavily on the adept piloting skills of astronaut Neil Armstrong. Now, more than half a century later, NASA is gearing up for a return to the Moon with its Artemis program, potentially…
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More than 50 years after the Apollo era, major governments and well-funded private companies still struggle with lunar landing missions. Why is landing on the moon so hard in 2024?
The nation is one of just five countries to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface, but Japan's space agency was still trying to confirm the status of the craft.