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Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It’s Totally Awesome | Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] brainlokk@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s amazing that we can pull off a mission like this!

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

It’s totally mind blowing to me. If you have ever played KSP. Planning an intercept, landing and return is prettt hard, even when you have full and instantaneous control and complete situational awareness.

Programming and doing it remotely with known comms lag is crazy to me.