[stacytec]

Planetary Body 1 Tiny Probe 0

Lets hope the Martians don't get mad at all the environmental destruction caused in the crash

[battlegearboat]

A Charlie Brown Christmas

[uglybiker]

Oh great! Now we're gonna be attacked by radical member of the Martian Liberation Front aka MiLF!

[solitas]

"Dear Earthlings, please stop throwing things at us."

[Calvin Locke]

I think you're really off on the score. NASA and the Soviet Union's lost more than a few. Let me think - Oh, yeah,
NASA's kilometers v. miles screwup for one.

Beagle 2's "mother ship" was having some minor difficulties deploying some instruments, and the Japanese probe in the
same launch window as Beagle 2 got zapped, albeit, by the Sun, rendering it a piece of space debris when it got to Mars.

OTOH, NASA's been been on a winning streak with Mars missions, avoiding the GGG factor.