Editorial: No time to stop venturing out into the universe

Posted by jburk to Mars Polar Lander at December 9, 1999 12:00 PM

SOMEWHERE in the cold desolation near the south pole of Mars, apparently oblivious to the frantic efforts of earthlings to contact it, there is a lost spacecraft. Barring some stroke of remarkable luck in establishing contact, we may never know what went wrong on the Mars Polar Lander.