> “There is disagreement between NASA and SpaceX on whether the provider’s current proposed approach for landing meets the intent of the Agency’s manual control requirement,” [...]
> The report notes that during every one of the Apollo program’s crewed lunar landings, astronauts engaged the backup manual control method. (Of course, this occurred six decades ago, when flight software was considerably less sophisticated than today.)
Soo... How well has that "sophisticated" flight software performed, when landing unmanned probes on the moon in the past few years?
> “There is disagreement between NASA and SpaceX on whether the provider’s current proposed approach for landing meets the intent of the Agency’s manual control requirement,” [...]
> The report notes that during every one of the Apollo program’s crewed lunar landings, astronauts engaged the backup manual control method. (Of course, this occurred six decades ago, when flight software was considerably less sophisticated than today.)
Soo... How well has that "sophisticated" flight software performed, when landing unmanned probes on the moon in the past few years?
Good point. Reminds me of this scene in The Right Stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAyJiNobfY8