On: Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C

[rdiddly]

"The only reason?" One reason for prematurely losing most of the investment is enough. The car analogy is inadequate but let's say my car skids gently into a position from which it won't start and I can't get out and I slowly die of starvation and/or hypothermia. Am I glad that I didn't "crash?"

[jacobgkau → rdiddly]

I didn't say the mission was a success. I was addressing someone's nitpick over the definition of the word "crash."

If the space probe had a wiring failure after landing that caused the loss of "investment," that wouldn't be a crash. It would be a separate problem.