With the recent moon landing attempts by private US companies having some mixed results, it seems that everyone is an expert on how to land something on the moon all of a sudden, well today we speak to an actual expert to find out what's really going on up there. Brandon Dotson has all the degrees and is currently writing a thesis on the difficulties of landing on the moon. Brandon Dotson: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h-bD-jkAAAAJ&hl=en Full show notes: https://spaceandthingspodcast.com/podcast/stp191-why-is-it-so-difficult-to-land-on-the-moon-with-brandon-dotson Show notes include links to all articles mentioned and full details of our guests and links to what caught our eye this week. Image Credits: NASA Space and Things: X: https://www.twitter.com/spaceandthings1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spaceandthingspodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceandthingspodcast/ Merch and Info: https://www.spaceandthingspodcast.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Spaceandthings Business Enquiries: [email protected] Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spaceandthings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.