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Beagle 3 To The Moon? No Chance.

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 23, 2007

New chance for Beagle as Nasa favours mission to the moon, The Guardian

“Nasa has given preliminary approval for a successor to the British-based Beagle 2 space mission that crash-landed on Mars on Christmas Day 2003. The Beagle to the Moon mission would search for water supplies on the surface that could support astronauts living on a future moon base. It would reuse many of the designs for instruments that flew on the ill-fated Mars mission. Nasa has given the go-ahead for a study into adapting Beagle 2 for a moon landing. If it formally approves the mission next year, it could launch in 2012.”

NASA gives Beagle 2 another shot at glory, The Register

“Now it seems the space agency has relented and agreed to give Beagle and Pillinger another chance. It has okayed a feasibility study that would work out how to adapt the lander for lunar exploration. The hope is that Beagle 2 could dig into the lunar surface and find water ice.”

Editor’s note: According to NASA sources there is no truth to this story.

Beagle 3 on MSL?, earlier post (2004)

Editor’s note: Now I have seen everything. For years Colin Pillinger dumped on the U.S. and the way it builds spacecraft. Then he crashes his spacecraft on Mars – most likely because he cut too many corners – and his country loses faith in him. Now he tries to get a ride on a U.S. Mars mission due to lack of enthusiasm back home. What a hypocrite.

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