Cause of Genesis Crash Found - Fast Fiction

	Fast Fiction Sunday, October 17, 2004 Cause of Genesis Crash Found In what seems to be speedy fashion, NASA has announced what they believe to be the cause of the crash of the Genesis spacecraft in the Utah desert. The capsule was supposed to deploy a parachute and as the craft floated to the ground, it would be snatched from the air by a helicopter with a hook. Either of two redundant pairs of switches could have triggered the release of a parachute when the craft hit the upper atmosphere. But because all four switches were installed backward, as specified by the Lockheed Martin design, the chute never deployed and the probe smashed into the Utah desert at more than 300 kilometers an hour. The collision destroyed the spacecraft, but scientists may eventually extract much of the data they had anticipated from the quarter-billion-dollar mission. I had suspected it was gravity, but this sounds much more likely. POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:22 pm Comments Commenting is not available in this channel entry. Next entry: Smell of the Day - Monday Previous entry: Taking the Plunge Trackback URL: http://www.typetive.com/trackback493
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