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by mulmen 358 days ago
NASA’s first attempt to land on Mars was successful. I count 11 total attempts with one failure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars

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Yeah, this is a remarkably good score - for comparison Europe is at 0 out of 2. :P

The first one [1] actually landed but failed to send back any data (kinda like the soviet example) due to deployment failure.

But the second one will at least have an impact on future generations, with people being confused why there are two Shiaparelli[2] craters on Mars. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiaparelli_EDM