Four Spacecraft to Reach Mars Over Next Month

Fox News ^ | 12/21/03 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

PASADENA, Calif.

[martin_fierro]

NASA's back-to-back 1999 failures prompted the American space agency to tighten oversight of the design, construction, testing and launching of its spacecraft, including this year's batch.

Dan Goldin was/is a smarmy Clintoon buttboy creep.

[Russ]

Did we get U.N. permission to invade Mars?

[skinkinthegrass]

...its getting crowded on Mars..

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[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Couldn't we get SOOOO much more accomplished regarding Mars (etcetera) if only government space agencies such as NASA simply offered competitive prizes like the one Charles Lindberg won for crossing the Atlantic? NASA's allowed to propose competitive prizes but unlike DARPA, NASA conveniently won't jeopardize its bureaucrats' and pet contractors' sinecures (I mean "jobs") by offering them. For more on this statist scandal from the space program which has a larger budget than all the rest of the world's civilian space agencies COMBINED:

http://www.SpaceProjects.com/prizes

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1046570/posts

Did Astrium, an ESA-anointed monopolistic contractor, actually WANT its lean-budgeted Beagle 2 Mars mission to fail in order to secure greater funding for subsequent interplanetary missions funded by increasingly stimulated European taxpayers?

[Calvin Locke]

Did we get U.N. permission to invade Mars?

UN?

Yemenis Claim Ownership of Mars [July 24, 1997, The Associated Press]

SAN`A, Yemen (AP) -- Three Yemeni men claiming ownership of Mars have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. space agency
NASA for invading the red planet, the weekly Al-Thawra reported Thursday. It said Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and
Abdullah al-Umari presented documents to Yemen's prosecutor general which they said proved their claim.
``We inherited the planet from our ancestors who had lived on it 3,000 years ago,'' the Arabic-language paper quoted the men as saying in one of the documents.

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars July 4. Its Sojourner
rover has been exploring the planet and sending back photos and data for analysis.

``Sojourner and Pathfinder, which are owned by the United States government, landed on Mars and began exploring it
without informing us or seeking our approval,'' the men said.

The men demanded the immediate suspension of all operations on Mars until the disclosing any information pertaining to
Mars' atmosphere, surface or gravity before receiving approval from them or until a verdict is reached.

(My Lord! I actually found something from Richard C. Hoagland useful! Will wonders never cease? He was on Art Bell last night.)