Lem Jukes

Cat, I farted.

On the one hand, sure, on the other hand, female contraceptives are not only useful for stopping pregnancy and are much more valuable and varied in their applications as a medicine than a pill that makes your swimmers drown.

The newest one, YCT-529, is still in clinical trials until June so we ont hear anything till closer to the fall if not the end of the year. Shit a market value estimate of $200b+ means they are absolutely still trying.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/12/14/what-we-know-about-the-male-birth-control-pill-yct-529-tested-by-researchers/?sh=5b38dac5177e

Bigots aren’t that smart ftfw

Did you miss the second half of my comment?

Hayabusa - JAXA - Asteroid probe that returned surface samples from 25143 Itokawa

Mars Perseverance 2020 - NASA - First powered atmospheric flight test on another planet

Rosetta - ESA - Comet orbiter and lander.

Idk what op is on about.

I think ‘age of the last moon landing’ is a pretty piss poor metric for how well a space program is doing. Remember two years ago when NASA landed the most advanced rover ever built and a friggin helicopter on mars? Remember how the helicopter was only designed to last a handful of sols and flights but is still to this day flying actual survey missions scouting for the rover?

I’m sorry but I think your metric for what ranks various space agencies capabilities is absolutely hog wash.

EDIT: You also seem to have missed in your assessment, the primary mission goal of the SLIM Lander. Japan was testing a landing technology that would allow vehicles to land ‘within 100 meters of a chosen landing site’. A goal JAXA achieved with this mission despite the solar panel issue. To give some context, up until now most landing sites are chosen for a margin of error up to several Kilometers.