Lets talk about feet for a second

Disappointed as everyone else as Im sure there entire engineering team is but I couldn’t help in comparing the feet design of Blue Ghost and Athena. Lets take a look.

Picture 1, Athena has 6 legs but to me the feet are very flat and small. They are rounded at the top and very flat on swivels.

Picture 2, Blue Ghost has large round circular feet at a steep outward angle and if you watch their landing, even their ship wobbles heavily at the end. You can see it tilt one direction and then roll back to flat and settle.

Picture 3, Athena is on its side with the Columbia jacket pouch on the left of the picture.

Picture 4, I added a foot where you can see the side that it tipped onto. If all of the feet were rounded, larger and angled so the craft could roll a little and then settle, I think it would have landed just fine. However, with its very tall design, adding 2-4 more support legs and having some ability to push or correct the attitude toward center of mass of the lander is going to have to be made.

I hope this seems helpful as I just couldn’t shake the foot design and the fact it tilted twice means something will have to change. I am sure their engineers are sick to their stomachs and haven’t slept because of it.

Maybe they see this and can reassure us on the leg design for IM3. I hope this helps.