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by lucubratory 719 days ago
Super impressive. A return mission from the far side is very technically difficult, and pulling it off paves the way for a staffed lunar lander on the far side.
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How is it more difficult than return from the near side, besides the need for a relay?
Having to route all of your communications through a relay, having to explicitly build out backups to your backups for comms rather than being able to look up with your instruments, a longer delay requiring more autonomy on the lunar surface, more radiation, more micrometeorite impacts, rougher terrain, other things.