Tuesday, 30. December 2003
Topic: Space - on December 30, 2003 at 11:09:00 AM CET
Sweet smell of failure
That rugby business confused things for a while, but now the stubbornly silent Mars probe Beagle 2 has reminded us what Britain does best: heroic failure These are all good reasons, and any one of them might account for why the probe failed. Instead of phoning home like a good extraterrestrial on Christmas Day, the Beagle snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
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