Adrian Crum wrote: > 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.
Funny. I can go down to the corner store and get a mars bar or a moon pie; both are just as difficult.
