Addressing all those stories about failed Mars probes
The dark side of space disaster theories
A new book by a noted space conspiracist argues that a string of NASA Mars mission failures in the 1990s were coverups to hide their secret activities. James Oberg debunks those claims by explaining how the authors misunderstood, inadvertently or deliberately, the technical causes for those failures.
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