[Loud Mime]

What I find amazing is that they were successful on their first try. No other nation has done that on their first mission to Mars.

Our first mission taught the engineering world an expensive lesson.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Our first mission taught the engineering world an expensive lesson.”

One of my bosses made a statement that has haunted me throughout my career: “The pioneers take the arrows - then, the settlers come waltzing in”.