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The aviators might say - a good landing is one you walk away from.

How exactly do you define a successful landing? What if you're upright but all four legs collapsed and the spacecraft crushed your primary science payload?




A great landing is when you can use the plane again afterwards.


"Walk away from" would be "Primary payload can function (or at least not fail because of an action of the lander)"




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