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It's Looking Increasingly Likely India's Historic Lunar Lander Is Dead For Good
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I would think manned missions would be slightly less prone to this type of issue. Having a person with a brain and hands next to the machinery means that minor issues that are impossible to solve from millions of miles away become trivial (ie. a connector comes loose: just put it back in, dust on the solar panel: wipe it off). It has its own set of dangers of course, but autonomous rover issues don't necessarily translate 1:1 with manned missions.
Makes me think of that one mission (I think it was to Venus?) Where the camera's lens cap happened to land so that it obstructed a soil probe. So many dumb things like that that can just totally screw up an unmanned mission
The issue with a manned mission to the moon is still going to be dust. Moon dust is sharp and jagged due to the complete lack of weathering.
It was actually a huge problem for the Apollo missions.
One of the major hurdles of figuring out how to do a longer lunar mission is figuring out how to handle the dust. It can completely compromise the joints and seals of a standard space suit in about a dozen hours.