[woofer]

That'll set the Euro technology industrial base back another ten years.

Wanna go interplanetary? Buy American. We get to AND report back from other worlds.

[freedumb2003]

That'll set the Euro technology industrial base back another ten years.

Wanna go interplanetary? Buy American. We get to AND report back from other worlds.

As badly as I want to crow about this, I think it is ultimately very sad -- all of Mankind loses out when knowledge is lost due to this kind of accident.

Space travel is inherently dangerous and I really hope this loss (don't forget we almost lost touch with Spirit) makes it clear that the only machine that can properly explore the cosmos is a thinking, breathing Human Being.

[Dave Elias]

Yeah and how many spacecraft have we lost on Mars...Heaps.

[gg188]

That'll set the Euro technology industrial base back another ten years

It set them back from 1975 to 1965.