The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was launched on November 6, 1996 and was captured into a highly elliptical, 45 hour orbit around Mars with a 973 m/s propulsive maneuver on September 12, 1997. A four month aerobraking phase was supposed to remove another 1200 m/s in order to circularize the orbit. Unfortunately, one of the two solar wings was damaged during deployment just after launch when the deployment damper failed. This paper will describe what has happened so far in order to achieve the original mission objectives and will discuss the plans for the future of the Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft.

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