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