Genesis Probe Crashes

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(CNN) -- The Genesis return capsule crashed in the desert on Wednesday after its parachutes failed to deploy. The craft missed a mid-air retrieval meant to save the spacecraft from hitting the Earth.




http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/08/genesis.entry.cnn/index.html

[DrWeird]

1. Scratch another one up for NASA.

If anything ever needed overhauling, it's NASA.

[Hunter_1253]

3. Well...

A catastrophic success! Or a Successful catastrophe…whichever wins your no bid contract.

[Endangered Specie]

2. God DAMNIT!

I hate it when NASA screws up... hence I get mad alot.

[soothsayer]

4. Whoops!

They can send a man to the moon, but stunt pilots driving helicopters couldn't nab a simple parachuteless probe hurtling thru the air?

[Cogito ergo doleo]

5. That was the Old NASA n/t

[AmerDem]

6. any chance of data being saved?

This sucks!

[gauguin57]

7. I wanna know how Karl Rove pulled this off.

AWOL story should be all over the place. But all I'm hearing on the news is Genesis crash, Genesis crash, Genesis crash.

Maybe Rove figured raising the terror level to red would be too flashy a way to get the media off the AWOL story. So he got NASA to make the chutes fail.

[Mizmoon]

8. Does that mean Spock's alive again? eom

[Minstrel Boy]

9. "KHAAAAAAAAAAN!"

[billyskank]

10. Damnit, you all beat me to the Star Trek 2 references! n/t

[qb]

11. I wonder if the genuises behind all of the cost-cutting measures

at NASA took into account the probability of fuckups like this. Are they really saving any money when their capsules keep blowing up or crashing?