It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data
"Hours after we got off the launch pad, we almost lost the spacecraft."
It's simply not true that "the mission was [, in his words,] an absolute success."
This is cheerleading, not reporting.
@arstechnica @CartyBoston absolutely a successful crash landing
@arstechnica The consequences of crunch mode - built with zombies