Homegrown Movement to Save Scrapped Probe

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Odyssey at October 1, 2000 12:00 PM

The mothballed Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander has found itself a torchbearer in Harrison Quigley. Along with a small group of friends, the Connecticut aerospace engineer has launched www.savethemarslander.org, a grass-roots attempt to get NASA to salvage the earthbound Martian probe. "All were saying is you built and tested it, now fly it," Quigley said.