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For Mars scientists, landing will be hallelujah or heartbreak Space Today

Bob Bonitz was standing in the open doorway of an airplane at 10,000 feet last January when NASA’s Mars Polar Lander was flung into space off a Cape Canaveral launch pad. He had intended to jump, rushing down in freefall as the rocket that carried the probe thundered in the distance, but thick clouds thwarted his plans.