Livestream: Japanese probe Hakuto-R landing on the Moon. In roughly 16 minutes.

[Warpy]

5. I hope someone reminds the team of the US mission that got all the way to Mars

and blew the landing because they failed to reconcile English vs. metric math covering the landing. https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-report/

This stuff is not easy, not even when the mission covers millions of miles and everything goes exactly right until the last 5 minutes.

After they get over tomorrow's hangover after tonight's drunk, they'll realize that engineers learn more from disasters than they do when everything has gone exactly right. Expensive screwups provide the most data.

NASA learned to go 100% metric, down to the level of nuts, bolts, and box wrenches.