Jo Steer
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first heard May 2026
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Sending sixty one radio transmissions back to Earth.
But then
In March nineteen sixty three.
Disaster struck.
When the craft was some sixty six million miles from Earth.
And at last, nearing its destination, the
It went silent.
The probe signal.
was gone.
A few months later, it flew near Mars, but with communication lost.
Its observations were inaccessible.
It must have been a heartbreaking disappointment.
But space scientists persevered.
And in nineteen sixty four
The Soviets launched another spacecraft that also made it to Mars.
Only to once again lose communication with the probe.
before its arrival.
But that year would see the launch of the first successful mission to Mars, albeit from the US, not the Soviet program.
Because that's when the US space program
Joined the race to the red planet.
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