Happens in Space a fair amount. There was the time an Astronomer booked some Hubble space telescope time and forgot to add in the precession to the coordinates.
So Hubble happily snapped photoâs of the random area in space it was told. With the actual target coordinates having moved on years ago.
One of the cooler aspects was the two âCubeSatsâ launched with the lander that were used to provided real-time telemetry about the landing. Normally would have to wait several hours to know if it succeeded or not.
No that is the wrong analogy. I think the odds are pretty great that a number of Russians making the Soyuz rocket, are either drunk at work or suffering from a hangover from the night before.
Back to the moon! Seems like a good use case for making use of the private sector to expand space capabilities. NASA did the high cost initial groundbreaking (many years ago), now they fund creation of moon transport private infrastructure, in the future that infrastructure can be used for more than just NASA missions.
Also happening today: SpaceX launches 64 satellites into space on one rocket, with a booster thatâs already been used twice. Itâs their 19th launch of the year, surpassing their previous annual record of 18 from last year.