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

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

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By Gail Iles
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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 [Pedro Lastra 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