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They aren't "going to the moon" they are going around the moon. It's like saying "I'm going to the store" and just driving past the parking lot and turning around to go home.
Don't know why you are getting down voted. This is a massive amount of money for no obvious purpose.
No, there will not be a moon colony one day, just fucking no.
Its more like if you lived in the eastern hemisphere and were like "im going to the grand canyon" and only planned on driving by on your road trip.
They're getting within 6500km of the surface, after travelling 385.000km. So they're going 98.3% of the way to the moon.
So that's like going from Beijing to the grand canyon, and staying in the western suburbs of Las Vegas.
Right. For all intensive purposes, they went to the moon lmao
Agree. I also dislike the wording of all the news.