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Exactly, as a particularly impressive example we have the footage of Perseverance's skycrane powered landing on Mars. An extremely precise maneuver, performed entirely autonomously, which would definitely not have been possible with the technology of Apollo's time, and even now is a bit of a challenge considering all the automated landing failures around the Moon in recent years.


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