alt Hacker News> the first country to reach Mars on its first attempt
Well doing it decades later than others did help with that.
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overfeed • today at 7:47 AM
How many[1] others? Not many countries can claim that achievement, industrialized or not, which is telling.
1. The answer is 3.: USA, USSR, and the European Space Agency
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How did that help them?
And how does it matter why they succeeded when the question is "are they capable of doing a Starlink?"?