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Originally Posted by Darkest Hour
how did the module land on the moon so easily if they had never landed on a surface with no gravity? Don't you think it would be harder than what they showed in the video?
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The Moon's gravitational pull is only 17% of the Earth's, so the Module weighs less on the Moon and everything on it has to be scaled down too. I think the rocket have to exert less force and uses less fuel and has a weaker thrust to perform the same maneuvers on the Moon compared to a Module landing on the Earth. What would had happened if the Scientist got Gravitation pull of the Moon wrong? Or one buster rocket was off, would it make sense that the Module could flip upsidedown?