NASA Abandons Search For Orbiter

Posted by jburk to Mars Polar Lander at September 24, 1999 12:00 PM

Mission controllers of NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter have abandoned the search for the spacecraft and declared it lost. Sam Thurman, flight operations manager for the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander, called off the search at 9 p.m. Pacific daylight time Friday.