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Almost half of all Moon missions fail: Why is space exploration still so hard?

25 October 2023

Gail Iles

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 12:00 AM

The Moon – about 400,000km away – the only planetary body humankind has visited to date – crewed craft have a 98 per cent chance of success, much higher than for uncrewed [Image: Mike Petrucci on Unsplash]

Gail Iles takes a retrospective look at missions to the Moon, where it remains tricky in current times to land an uncrewed craft on the surface

In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now the In

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