This isn't a mistake. This is a "Americans won't believe the Europeans are sending probes to other planets" decision. I'm actually fairly angry about it. This is U-571 all over again.

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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive." - Carl Sagan, 1995