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NASA's Not Shining Moments ( Preview )

The space agency's approach, including its "faster, better, cheaper" credo, may be a recipe for disaster

By James Oberg   

 
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Spaceflight remains such an expensive, hazardous, edge-of-the-precipice activity that the cost of disasters can be staggering. The presumed loss of the Mars Polar Lander in December 1999 is only the latest setback. The

Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft crashed into the destination planet's atmosphere and was

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