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Old November 23rd 03, 06:56 AM
Rand Simberg
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Default Japan admits its Mars probe is failing

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:05:53 +1100, in a place far, far away, Stephen
Souter made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Poor old NASA! It can't seem to satisfy anybody.

When it ignores the warnings of the "Chicken Littles" about spacecraft
safety it gets damned for allowing Columbia to burn and crash. When it
tries to pay those warnings due heed it gets damned again for being
*too* safety conscious!


But not by the same people.

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