I was worried before the first lunar landing, because prior to sending
passengers, they had never previously managed a soft landing, nor take-off
from anywhere but Earth.
Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines included a very short story (a couple of
paragraphs), in which the capsule settled down
> On Aug 29, 2023, at 8:28 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I was worried before the first lunar landing, because prior to sending
> passengers, they had never previously managed a soft landing, nor take-off
> from anywhere but Earth.
That's only partly true. The Surveyor craft had
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 01:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines [...] in which the capsule settled down
> onto the moon, and
> immediately sank irrevocably below kilometer thick layer of dust.
I am strongly reminded of _A Fall of Moondust_ by Arthur C. Clarke.
