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To: Starlight who wrote (8194)	8/7/2000 4:49:38 PM
From: Starlight	Respond to of 10309

Ooooppps! I forgot about the Mars Polar Lander that was never heard from - Wind River Helps JPL Search for Signs of Life with Mars Polar Lander Company’s Reliable, Compact Embedded Software Is Operating System for NASA/JPL Missions Alameda, CA, December 3, 1999 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced that Wind River’s software is the computer operating system for JPL’s Polar Lander space project, scheduled to land on Mars on December 3, 1999. The NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Polar Lander mission is charged with searching for water and organic compounds on Mars—a potential indication of life on the red planet. Polar Lander is the latest in a long series of missions, including Mars Pathfinder, Stardust, Deep Space 1, and Climate Orbiter, which Wind River’s reliable yet powerful software has helped to successfully operate.