"Derek Lyons" wrote in message

"Allen W. McDonnell" wrote:

Going into orbit is a lot tougher than just doing a flyby, but we have
done
it many times with Venus and Mars and we have suceeded in doing it with
Jupiter once, with Galelio.

Which sounds bad until you realize we have only tried it once - with
Galileo.

D.

Heh. It's this kind of technique I've seen used _intentionally_ in op/eds
here and there with regard to the new space policy, and accidentally (?) in
various news reports. Like saying: "We've only had a single successful
manned lunar program". It's almost "Easterbrook-ish".

Jon