It continued to function even through the test,'' he said. NASA will appoint a review board to investigate the mishap just as it did twice last year after the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander losses. Investigators later found Climate Orbiter mission failed because critical navigation units were not translated into metric. Polar Lander's review board is expected to make its findings public next week. Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, where its primary science team is based.
Hell sell it to China and get it over with.
I broke my VCR that way. Well, let's get some entertainment value out of it. They're making way too much of this. It's space science. Of course they occasionally break stuff.