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First review pass[edit]

This is a nice little article! Start for now. To get to the next level, you'll want citations for all paragraphs and references for various assertions (it may seem common sense that only a rocket can land something on the moon currently, but that needs to be said by someone else, not the article-writer!) Also, you'll note that most of your citations have something wrong with them (see your reference list at the bottomwhen previewing the article) --Neopeius (talk) 19:57, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Examples section[edit]

This is too random and needs to be structured. It should be separated into: actual historical programs (important for their foundational nature; Luna, Surveyor, and Apollo LM deserve to be highlighted with summary MOS:PROSE); other current programs; and those which are only proposals which can remain as a list. JustinTime55 (talk) 12:31, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Touchdown of Apollo 11 is factually incorrect[edit]

Apollo 11's lunar lander, for example, contacted the surface with its probe at 1.6m above the Lunar surface, at which point the engine was shut down and the spacecraft fell the remaining distance. was added in this edit, and has been removed three times by IP editor(s) saying it's not true. I'm inclined to believe them. I'll reuse a source from the Apollo 11 article, which describes the engine being on until landing. – Anon423 (talk) 16:35, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Add OMOTENASHI mission?[edit]

According to the Wikipedia article on “OMOTENASHI”, this was a JAXA mission from Japan that launched aboard the SLS rocket used on the Artemis 1 flight. This 6u cubesat was intended to land on the moon using solid rocket motors and an airbag. The mission was declared over by JAXA after poor communications. 2A02:14F:16F:1E40:745B:F385:B620:42CD (talk) 13:18, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Japan's SLIM lander[edit]

Dear RIP B1058, thank you for your efforts in fully describing the outcome of the SLIM mission in this article. However, as you can see, this is essentially a descriptive list article (though not technically a list I think) and each landing program, even those with multiple probes such as the old Soviet Luna program, pretty much only rates one paragraph. In light of this practice, can I prevail upon you to edit your contributions with respect to the SLIM lander so that it's more succinct and condensed, and reserving the longer descriptive version to the actual SLIM wiki? Cheers, Spotty's Friend (talk) 22:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, while writing the article i was thinking of getting notices of overwriting, but i didn't knew how to condense. On your request i saw the article with a different look and found the way to condense. Is it ok now @Spotty's Friend? —🪦VSVNB1058 (2020-2023) (TALK) 02:56, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]