Jerry_111
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Last time they tried something like a rocket landing on mars they lost the thing they were trying to land.
Use the bouncing bags. It works.
Unfortunately, they can't. That system is unable to safely land such a heavy rover. And this isn't really the same old rocket system that were used for the last stationary lander, but an (almost) new concept called skycrane.
Then this mission failed before it even was conceived.
Last time they tried something like a rocket landing on mars they lost the thing they were trying to land.
Use the bouncing bags. It works.
Don't be so pessimistic. The last rocket-landing mission failed becase Nasa contracted a European firm for the navigation system. The European firm used metric units in the navigation system, so when Nasa passed on an orbit distance in miles, the craft decided it was in kilometers, and burned up in the atmosphere. The one before that was unrelated to the rocket boosters, the landing gear they used opened too early, which shut off the rocket and caused it to crash.
I think after those terrible failures Nasa has learned a little more about landing designs, and are much more cautious.This design looks like a fairly good idea, as long as the craft is oriented correctley and chooses a good landing site it shouldn't be too difficult to land it. (After all, the last craft used basically the same system, it just released the rover much earlier, at which point it used airbags)
If they fail this then there is really nothing more NASA could do to decrease their public image any further. We can only hope the beauracratic system hasn't resulted in a machine that doesn't work with its own parts, as the last ones did.