NASA's Genesis Capsule Crashes
NASA's Genesis return capsule crashed into the desert Wednesday morning due to an apparent malfunction in its parachutes.
Source: WiredThe 420-pound space capsule was to have been plucked out of the air by a helicopter and returned safely to Earth. It was carrying solar wind samples -- charged atoms of oxygen and sodium -- weighing less than 20 micrograms, which is less than a few grains of salt. It is unclear whether the samples have been destroyed. NASA officials say that the sapphire, silicon and diamond wafers that were used to collect the samples may have been shattered in the crash, although it may be possible to piece them back together.
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there is a gremlin somewhere waiting to **** it up.....
Did anyone see the crash, I was watching.. was kinda sweet left a nice crater in the ground..
but to bad alot of scientific equipment and data may have been lost.
They did have a Plan-B....
pick it all up after it crashes....
and a Plan-C
if it falls in the wrong area of the world.. it was filled with explosives.
that could be set off remotely
The Beagle II project that went up to Mars would have been teriffic had it gone according to plan.
Shame
~Cyrix
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but you would think one of those so called Rocket Scientest would have asked
Hey will happen if the main chute doesn't open or gets damaged?
And every parajumper in the world would have the answer.
As would vileycoyoty (sp) :banghead:
the Soveit Union solved this for 52 cents... they gave the Astronauts PENCILS......
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