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I wonder if Colin Pillinger will get a response from anyone at NASA regarding his Beagle 3 suggestion.

What exactly did he say about the rovers that annoyed so many people? There's this from NASA Watch:

"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."

[djellison]

What exactly did he say about the rovers that annoyed so many people?

That they were crap, basically

Which was not a clever thing to say when the only chance of getting your payload to the surface is to do it yourself ( which he failed at ) or hitching a ride with the Americans.

Doug