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cyberax 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video...

> Russia/USSR tried multiple times and didn't succeed.

Pedant mode: the USSR did land softly on Mars, but the lander got caught in a dust storm and was not able to transmit back the data ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3 ).

m4rtink 8 months ago [–]

The european Beagle 2 probe apparently survived as well, but failed to deploy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2

But other than that, yeah, there are two Schiaparelli craters now on Mars. :P

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiaparelli_EDM)

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