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Black Sunday: January 15th, 2012?

While taking a leisurely drive along the East Coast this Sunday or Monday, and you start to feel queasy, cancel Christmas! As some of you may have heard, Russia launched a Mars probe a few months back called Phobos-Grunt. It’s destination was the Mars moon Phobos, and it’s goal was to land on the surface, conduct tests, and return to Earth. However, this was not to be because after launch, the craft had problems with it’s boosters and ended up stuck in the Earth’s orbit. Russian scientists had a three day window to fix the problem, but were unable to. So now the craft is part of a LONG list of Russian Phobos failures (not to mention hella space junk!)

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