In the decades following Mariner and Apollo, the once-popular subgenre of realistic stories about a first expedition to Mars fell out of fashion, possibly due to the failure of the Apollo Program to continue on to Mars.

* Mars Express / Beagle 2 – 1 June 2003 – Mars orbiter / lander ( lander failure )

On 21 March 1963, when the spacecraft was at a distance of 106, 760, 000 km from Earth on its way to Mars, communications ceased, probably due to failure of the spacecraft's antenna orientation system.

* April 21, 2002, the Nozomi Mars Probe was hit by a large Solar Energetic Particles event which caused large-scale failure.

This failure to recognize the power of comets and asteroids means that it is reasonable to go back to Velikovsky and delete all the physically impossible text about Venus and Mars passing close to the earth.

Afterwards, the incident was classified above Top Secret by the US government, and declared a complete failure to the public ( saying it crashed on Mars instead ) but later became a warning that the Transformers were coming to Earth.

Mars 1M No. 1, known in the west as Marsnik 1, Mars 1960A and Korabl 4, was destroyed in a launch failure on October 10, 1960.

Phobos 1 suffered a terminal failure en route to Mars.

The Phobos design was used again for the long delayed Mars 96 mission which ended in failure when the launch vehicle's fourth stage misfired.

Based on these calculations, he was to pronounce that von Braun's ambitions of reaching the Moon and Mars were doomed to failure because of the complexity of the spacecraft required.

In 2011, Mars Needs Moms was released to poor reviews and disastrous box-office returns ; as of its second week of release, the film was on track to lose $ 100 million of its $ 150 million budget, and its failure led to the closing of ImageMovers Digital.

He intended to follow it up with similar treatises on Mars, Jupiter, Sun, Moon, comets and meteors, stars, and nebulae, and had in fact commenced a monograph on Mars, when the failure of a New Zealand bank deprived him of an independence which would have enabled him to carry out his scheme without anxiety as to its commercial success or failure.

The first manned mission to Mars ended in failure after the Zero-X spacecraft was accidentally sabotaged by the Hood, who had stowed aboard the craft to photograph its wing mechanisms.

The band, then officially consisting of vocalist / guitarist John Corabi, bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars, were so frustrated with the failure of the previous album and tour sales that they fired numerous people around the group, including their accountant, manager Doug Thaler, and their producer Bob Rock.

Disney dropped Yellow Submarine following the box-office failure of Mars Needs Moms.

Mademoiselle Mars, ( Anne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat ) ( February 9, 1779-March 20, 1847 ), French actress, was born in Paris, the natural daughter of the actor-author named Monvel ( Jacques Marie Boutet ) ( 1745 – 1812 ) and Jeanne-Marie Salvetat ( 1748 – 1838 ), an actress known as Madame Mars, whose southern accent had made her Paris debut a failure.

The Open Polar Sea theory was debunked gradually by the failure of the expeditions in the 1810s through the 1880s to navigate the polar sea.

Before Jeffson leaves, he hears a sermon by a Scottish priest named Mackay, speaking against Polar research, calling the failure of all previous expeditions the will of God, and prophesying a terrible fate for those who attempt to go against God's will in this.

Investigators concluded that the most likely cause of the Lander ’ s failure was that a spurious sensor signal associated with the craft ’ s legs falsely indicated that the craft had touched down when in fact it was some 40 meters above the surface.

Thus Baptist churches on the frontier took cognizance of charges against their members of drunkenness, fighting, malicious gossip, lying, cheating, sexual irregularities, gambling, horse racing, and failure to pay just debts.

Nevertheless, he regards the case in " The Chocolate Box ", which took place in 1893, as his only actual failure of detection.

Eager to rectify his failure to catch his prey, the hunter and his two wives ( sometimes the escaped sibling wives of Waku and Kanu ) hurried on, and took positions high on the cliff on which Tailem Bend now stands.

The popes took advantage of the failure of Utrecht, and the person named as apostolic vicar was derided by Rome as the Archbishop of Utrecht in partibus infidelium.

They took Damietta and a few other places in Egypt, but lack of unity among the Christians and rivalry between their leaders and the papal legate Pelagius resulted in failure.

After several years, prohibition became a failure in North America and elsewhere, as bootlegging ( rum-running ) became widespread and organized crime took control of the distribution of alcohol.

Though some regarded as a failure as a novel, considering it little more than a disguised lecture on Heinlein's social theories, some readers took a very different view.

The Governor took the situation seriously, and to prevent any more failure he requested two battalions from Eritrea to reinforce his troops, and assumed lead of the operations.

The failure also cost him his American solo career, since the opera took too much time and effort.

Later work confirmed that tube unreliability was not as serious an issue as generally believed ; the 1946 ENIAC, with over 17, 000 tubes, had a tube failure ( which took 15 minutes to locate ) on average every two days.

ICFTU wrote that, " One of the most striking features of the violations that took place in Africa is the failure of governments to respect the rights of their own employees, both through the restrictions in law on organising, collective bargaining and strike action, and repression in practice.

Catastrophic failure, meaning the release of radioactive material into the environment, if it took place, would be the result of a containment breach.

Distributed control meant there was no common point of failure, but also meant that the setup stage lasted for the ten seconds or so the caller took to dial the required number.

Reviews for the show were poor and it closed after 25 performances ; Tracy later said of the failure, " My ego took an awful beating.

In 1589, he took part in Francis Drake's English Armada, which sailed to Spain in an unsuccessful attempt to press home the English advantage following the defeat of the Spanish Armada ; the Queen had ordered him not to take part in the expedition, but he only returned upon the failure to take Lisbon.

The attack was a failure, and Huizong took back power from his mother.

Barrymore suffered a conspicuous failure in his wife Michael Strange's play Clair de Lune ( 1921 ), but followed it with the greatest success of his theatrical career with Hamlet in 1922, which he played on Broadway for 101 performances and then took to London in 1925.

Binet had risked everything on his experiment and its results, and this failure took a toll on him.

It took place in April 1870, and proved a failure just as rapid and complete as the attempt of 1866.

In 1974 Fassbinder took directorial control over the Theater am Turm ( TAT ) of Frankfurt, when this project ended in failure and controversy, Fassbinder became less interested in the theater.

If any application failed to run on Windows 95, I took it as a personal failure.

In the late 1990s, the Board took tacit note of the criticism leveled at its predecessors for failure to cite two of the country's foremost jazz composers.

The failure of the Telidon efforts was a topic of considerable discussion in Canada, part of a similar and wider conversation on the entire concept of videotex that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Additionally, by late 1983, Dukowski had retired from performing with Black Flag ( some accounts report he was " edged out " by Ginn ); Azerrad reports that Ginn was dissatisfied with Dukowski's failure to progress as an instrumentalist, and made things difficult for Dukowski in an attempt to make him quit, but in the end, Rollins took it on himself to fire Dukowski.

The only difference was that the operators at Davis-Besse identified the valve failure after 20 minutes, where at TMI it took 80 minutes ; and the Davis-Besse facility was operating at 9 % power, against TMI's 97 %.