The Great Martian Traffic Jam

Kathy Miles writes "Not one, but three space agencies are lining up for Mars launches for June this year. The ESA (European Space Agency) is planning to launch their Mars Express in June for a December landing. NASA has two Mars landers almost ready to go, having fixed a few last minute problems and Japan is launching a Mars Orbiter called Nozomi. The two NASA rovers should arrive in January. Everyone wants to launch around June because Mars will not only be at opposition that month, but nearing a close approach to Earth in August when Mars will be closer to Earth than its been in hundreds of years."

Comments

Dammit!

[wowbagger]

To: High command
From: Special agent ngrrt
Re: Human launches toward our home

DAMMIT!

Do you have any IDEA how hard it is going to be for us to make that many launch failures look like accidents?

One or two we can make look like math errors, but this is going to strain even the human's credulity

Sincerely,

ngrrt