29 Aug
2023
29 Aug
'23
5:45 p.m.
On Aug 29, 2023, at 8:28 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I was worried before the first lunar landing, because prior to sending passengers, they
had never previously managed a soft landing, nor take-off from anywhere but Earth.
That's only partly true. The Surveyor craft had made (unmanned) soft landings, which
helped rule out the "miles of moon dust" worry.
Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines included a very
short story (a couple of paragraphs), in which the capsule settled down onto the moon, and
immediately sank irrevocably below kilometer thick layer of dust.
paul