Re: The rocky road to other worlds

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Fri Sep 24 1999 - 20:52:22 MDT


Larry Klaes wrote:

> 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....

This is appropriate in light of today's news that the latest Mars
mission was lost because of a navigation error on the part of
JPL. {8-[

Hey but how about that Ikonos mission, aboard the Athena
booster? Another successful Lock.heed.Mart.in project... {8-] spike



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