From: Larry Klaes (lklaes@bbn.com)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 06:33:46 MDT
Ten years ago, I wrote an article on the history of robotic
Mars exploration which was published in the October, 1989
issue of the EJASA and the August, 1990 issue of Spaceflight.
You can read the EJASA article here:
http://www.seds.org/pub/info/newsletters/ejasa/1989/jasa8910.txt
I wrote the article in response to the then recent failures
of the Soviet Phobos 1 and 2 probes. One thing you will see
is that failed Mars missions are not uncommon. Ironically,
the Soviets have had better luck landing on the surface of
Venus than they ever did on Mars.
I take it as part of the price to pay to explore space and
the fact that sending probes to other worlds is still far
from routine.
Larry
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