With pinpoint precision Japan puts a lander on the moon. Only one problem though........

[DigitalDrifter]

It landed upside down..........

"An image taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 shows Japan's SLIM spacecraft on the moon. The “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed 180 feet (55 meters) shy of its target."

And 180 degrees,

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade​

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

A photo of Japan's robotic moon lander shows that though the spacecraft did make the quarter-million-mile journey to the lunar surface, it landed upside down.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

mashable.com

 

[DigitalDrifter]

 

[fncceo]

 

[JGalt]

Hank Johnson: "How do we know that it's not the moon that's upside-down?"

 

[shockedcanadian]

I hope China doesn't announce another trip to the moon to "collect any human debris littering the moon". The Japanese are proud people and that dig would not go over well.

 

[Moonglow]

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It needed a black pilot because blacks always back their cars in.

 

[Flash]

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

It can't be too hard. The US did it more than a half century ago using slide rules.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[el midgetron]

I am genuinely disappointed with Japan.

 

[Orangecat]

It landed upside down..........

View attachment 894079
"An image taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 shows Japan's SLIM spacecraft on the moon. The “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed 180 feet (55 meters) shy of its target."

And 180 degrees,

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade​

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

mashable.com

It had to be yellow, didn't it?

 

[Rawley]

It landed upside down..........

View attachment 894079
"An image taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 shows Japan's SLIM spacecraft on the moon. The “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed 180 feet (55 meters) shy of its target."

And 180 degrees,

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade​

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

mashable.com

Ouch.

 

[Dekster]

They are just planning to push it back closer to earth before it slips away into space forever.

 

[el midgetron]

What if Japan really did mean to do that? They designed it specifically for that photo-op as a psyop? What if it’s a cover for a lunar base they established with the launch?

 

[el midgetron]

My faith in Japan is restored.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Japan and India and Russia....... are about 50 years behind America in Moon exploration.
You would think that Moon exploration would be much easier today with the much better technology that we have.

 

[Foxfyre]

It landed upside down..........

View attachment 894079
"An image taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 shows Japan's SLIM spacecraft on the moon. The “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed 180 feet (55 meters) shy of its target."

And 180 degrees,

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade​

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade

It's really hard to touch down on the lunar surface.

mashable.com

Okay funny, but should also be a wakeup call for all of us. President Trump created the Space Force intended to protect the USA from aggressors coming at us from space. If Japan has the capability to get a lunar module to the moon, even if they couldn't exactly land it, it could signal us that we could lose our edge in space. When we retired the Shuttle program we are now at a disadvantage should other countries put people up there other than at the ISS though Elon Musk is working on that. And if a hostile country should acquire superiority in space and capability to remove any satellites it wants to, control the ISS, have capability to take out our ICBMs as soon as they are launched that country will have huge advantage over everybody.

The USA should never lose its superiority in the space program. NASA and the Space Force should continue to be funded and continuing both research to peacefully use space effectively and also how to defend against hostile powers.

 

[el midgetron]

Japan is wack.

 

[Flash]

Imagine if Apollo 11 had landed upside down.

 

[Vastator]

Okay, now they're just showing off...