Timeline for What crewed space flight landed farthest off-target?
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| Apr 3, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | SF. | In case of Earth landings on a parachute, I don't think this will be easy, since the target is usually an area, not a point, so any landing within the area counts as "on the spot." | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 15:08 | comment | added | user | @Malvolio That sounds like a decent separate question, if it hasn't been asked already, but I think any Shuttle landing (you really wanted to touchdown very near the end of the runway), or Apollo 12's lunar landing (because they had a very specific target to aim for and measure distance to), would be near the top of the list. | |
| S Mar 6, 2017 at 16:34 | history | suggested | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Make the title clear without the context of which site it is on (such as in the "hot questions" it is in right now)
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| Mar 6, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | The obvious next question is, what mission landed the closest? Obviously, guided landings like the SST land within a few meters of their target, but non-aerodynamic, parachute-based splashdowns like the Apollo are far trickier to plan. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 13:29 | answer | added | James Jenkins | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 8:10 | comment | added | SF. | ,,,is that what the "fake Moon landing" conspiracy theorists believe? I think if we count the conclusion as a spacecraft we have a new off-target landing record. | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 3:54 | comment | added | user18821 | Arguably, Apollo 13 did not land on the moon at all, instead they may missed it and to make up for the failure NASA decided to fake it to get ahead of the Russians. | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 22:17 | comment | added | user | Related, but definitely not a duplicate: How precise are our Mars landings? | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 22:10 | comment | added | DrZ214 | @MichaelKjörling Ah, well, when you put it that way, fair enough. | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 22:09 | comment | added | user | @DrZ214 I suspect Jens is referring to the fact that the first landing of the Apollo 13 mission was planned to be done with the LM, and only the second landing was supposed to be done with the CM. As the CM was used for the first landing of the Apollo 13 mission, the crew thus landed with the wrong module. QED. | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | DrZ214 | @Jens They did not land in the LEM lol, neither on Moon nor on Earth. But it was more spaceworthy than the CSM on that flight. | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 21:57 | vote | accept | SF. | ||
| Mar 4, 2017 at 18:09 | answer | added | DrZ214 | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 0:49 | answer | added | Hannover Fist | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 22:16 | comment | added | Jens | @TonyK And even with the wrong module... | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 20:42 | comment | added | TonyK | IIRC, Apollo 13 landed 384,400 km off target.:-) | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 20:16 | history | edited | pericynthion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
manned -> crewed
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 16:29 | history | edited | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 16:17 | history | edited | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made the question into something where I can pick the "best answer".
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 14:48 | answer | added | MTCoster | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 14:16 | comment | added | neptune | There is an urban legend about a cosmonaut landed in China after a serious failure: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts#Vladimir_Ilyushin | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 13:46 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/837660418332045313 | ||
| Mar 3, 2017 at 13:41 | answer | added | Jack B | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 11:41 | answer | added | GdD | timeline score: 27 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 11:28 | history | asked | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |