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by hoseja 718 days ago
How is it more difficult than return from the near side, besides the need for a relay?
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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.