Adam Heath wrote:
Adrian Crum wrote:
We had pretty good success putting a man on the Moon, but our success rate
getting a probe to Mars is about 50 percent. So, is the separation of the
framework the Moon or Mars?
apples to oranges. We haven't attempted to put a man on mars.
The apples to oranges comparison was intentional. The mission to the
Moon succeeded using computers comparable to today's digital watch.
Today we send probes to Mars using far better technology - yet we have a
higher failure rate than the Moon missions. The difference is distance -
Mars is harder to reach than the Moon.
-Adrian
