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Government Executive Editor in Chief Tom Shoop, along with other editors and staff correspondents, look at the federal bureaucracy from the outside in.
RIP, Phoenix Mars Lander
It's no surprise, but NASA officially says the Phoenix Mars Lander is out of commission, a victim of "severe ice damage" to its solar panels.
Last week, NASA flew the Mars Odyssey orbiter over the Phoenix landing site 61 times in a last-ditch effort to communicate with the lander, but no go. The spacecraft wasn't designed to survive the Martian winter.
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Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
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