QuickCheck: Has Nasa ever been sued for landing on Mars?

At its closest, Mars is 62.12 million kilometres away, so it's highly unlikely that humans made it there over 3,000 years ago. -filepic

SINCE 1997, a claim has floated online that three Yemeni men tried to sue the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in the United States for landing a probe on Mars. Did this really happen?

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