More Delays Will Leave Martian Scientists As Smarting As Ever

Posted by tourdemars to Sample Return at September 21, 2001 12:00 PM

The public affairs offices of both NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed today that the agency is likely to follow a course of action whose possibility was suggested several weeks ago in 'Space Daily': delaying by two years the planned 2007 first test flight of the complex Mars landing spacecraft that will later be used to return Mars samples to Earth.