alt Hacker NewsThis was the farthest humans ever travelled from earth, even farther than apollo 13. Intuitively the farther you go the higher the risks are
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rvnx • today at 3:35 AM
They could go twice the same distance, the risk would be roughly the same at that point. It's mostly the complexity and changes that make it more risky once the initial trajectory is in place.
Landing on the moon is enormously riskier than simply going further out.