[Popman]

The faulty instrument is a very sensitive seismometer designed to measure movements in the Martian soil as small as the diameter of an atom, NASA said in a statement. The device is provided by France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).

You know if NASA was fulfilling its core mission of outreach to Muslims, this part would have made by a company in Islamabad, Pakistan and it would have been done correctly...

Here's the prototype

[Zuben Elgenubi]

NASA Moslem Outreach. Now they are naming missions, too. InSight stands for:

In
Sharia
is
godless
hateful
tradition

[Bratch]

But-but...

...what about Matt Damon?

[ETL]

According to Sheila Jackass Lee we've already landed men on Mars.

Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
From Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

[RetSignman]

[PAR35]

Let’s face it. The US Space program fell apart when the Americans started throwing war crimes accusations at their German scientists. Now, NASA can’t put a man in space, and they can’t even send a payload to another planet. Arthur Rudolph had to flee the country in 1984.