Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate [Data Visualization]

Mars. There has to be little green men with ACME weapons living there. Or we have some incredibly bad luck when it comes to sending spacecrafts to the Red Planet. Most of them fail, for one reason or the other.

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Out of 42 missions, only 20 have succeeded. That’s less than 50% chance of survival. And it gets worse: Of those, only eight were actually programmed to  …