Another failure from the private sector

“We continue receiving valuable data,” the company said in a statement, “and providing spaceflight operations for components and software relating to our next lunar lander mission, Griffin.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/private-mission-moon-wont-land-lunar-surface-malfunction-rcna133082

Well, yeah, great. But the Peregrine lander still is a failure. Propulsion leak. Solar panels that didn’t open in time.

And NASA is counting on these privately operated products to get people back to the Moon? And they’ve delayed the Artemis again by another year?

When I was in school, we were all talking about people on Mars, living in permanent communities in the 2020s. And we can’t even get a tiny Moon lander to work right.

Sigh. And after BBC posted “Vulcan rocket” I so had my hopes up. (“The Vulcan rocket,” not “Vulcan rocket,” Spock )