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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

they managed to mess up quite a few times on Mars

C'mon people. Where's the support? Why not say "I hope there's something salvageable so the science isn't completely lost" or "It's ashame what happened after so much time and effort put into it" rather than "Geez, NASA, another screwup" or "it's not the first time they've screwed up"

Let's be a a little more supportive of this great program we call NASA.

When was the last time you launched ANYTHING into space? Yeah, that's right, NEVER! So don't promote their failures when you haven't even attempted success.