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The first one was tall and skinny and toppled over after a landing leg malfunctioned. So they sent a second tall skinny probe, loaded with expensive equipment. Aaaand it fell over.
Maybe somebody should tell them about center of gravity and redundant systems.
Get them to watch some robot war shows. Those things all have devices to flip back over.
Flipping over on the Moon could be hard. You coud accidentally jump pretty far.
We've all had Kerbal Space Program missions that went like that.
Time for a new mission to rescue Bill!
8 missions and 8 dead pilots later: ah fuck it
they should just reload the previous save
This article was amended on 8 March 2025. The Athena craft touched down 250 meters, not 250 miles, from its intended landing site.
I bet they had "250m" in the report and the too-US-brained reporter went "hmm, yes. 250 miles"
Cool, more moon litter. Will it end up like the path to the summit of Everest, we have to place signs telling the billionaires to please clean up after themselves?
RIP ):