Moon mission failure: why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
(www.nature.com)
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Maybe the companies or agencies staff up with science diversity people who argue that f = ma is racis.
Another aspect is, in a successful project you first attempt Earth landings, practice, and test your sensor and computing systems to see how they hold up in the real world not the simulation world. The gravity will be different and the presence of air changes the fall, but you come to understand how to subtract that out. Assuming you have hired smart people and not the ones who eat fried chicken.