Crash of planetary lander mellows NASA's Mars high
Friday, August 10, 2012 - 11:00
in Astronomy & Space
As NASA prepared to brief media and the public about the Curiosity rover's fifth day on Mars, the space agency's jubilant mood was soured somewhat by news that another of its spacecrafts crashed during a test flight at the at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.