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...Mars Observer spacecraft permanently lost contact with NASA last August, just before it was to begin its surface-mapping mission. But an investigative panel has concluded that the problem was most likely a fuel leak and not, as first suspected, a faulty transistor. According to the theory, as the probe's fuel tanks were being pressurized for a final maneuver, the fuel ignited prematurely, blowing a hole in Observer and throwing it into an uncontrollable spin...
...David Lister, an MIT physicist, wasasked on December 28 by the president of MIT tohead up the institute's probe into theexperiments, Campbell said...
Adelstein spoke of Harvard's investigation ofits participation in the experiments, discussingits ongoing probe of University records, accordingto Wrinn. Adelstein also spoke of Benda and hisaffiliation with Harvard, Wrinn said...
University Attorney Anne Taylor last nightconfirmed that her office is assisting the probe,which she called "a Herculean task." But Taylordeclined to discuss any details of her role in theprobe...
...easy to be critical, to flatten politicians who are not perfect, but our real challenge is to convert cynicism into action, and action into progress. It's easier to snicker at higher-ups than it is to critically probe our own foibles; it's easier to blame others when we have not yet faced up to our own responsibility for improving the state of our political affairs...