Mars Missions Fail 52.4% Of The Time
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The reason why is obvious: Martians are shooting our stuff down.
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Which is why you should have serious second thoughts about a manned mission to Mars, OW.
I’m with Buzz Aldrin–manned spaceflight is key to the survival of mankind as a species. We need to get there, and on the ‘sooner’ side of ‘eventually’ than the later. My comment to Buzz, though, was that we need to succeed for our own sakes, as opposed to memorializing a dead President (which the Moon landings can be argued to have been).
The more we dig in and hunker down on Earth, the greater the likelihood that a rock (maybe tomorrow afternoon) will hit the planet and sterilize it. Demanding 100% safety and 100% success isn’t reasonable–the job needs doing, is worth doing, and should be done.
But most of those failures were Soviet failures. There’s a joke in there somewhere about the Red Planet and the Reds, but I’m to lazy to go looking for it.