These two failures have given us a wake-up call and we're going to respond to it. A Mars orbiter and lander scheduled for 2001 may not now go ahead, Goldin hinted. Viewed against the backdrop of a crippled Hubble Space Telescope and the grounding of the space shuttle fleet because of wiring problems, the past few months have been NASA's worst period since the explosion of the Challenger shuttle and deaths of all seven astronauts aboard, in 1986. When it comes to responsibility, this might be rocket science, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. You get what you pay for and we are trying to do it on the cheap.
Space is enormously unforgiving, the most unforgiving environment there is.
You can't fudge it in space.