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Genesis Flap

OK, I didn’t even like the concept of the re-entry of Genesis to Earth. I pondered too many things that could go wrong. Things like someone sneezing at an inopportune moment and missing the satellite. Things like bad weather. Things like helicopter mechanical failures. What I didn’t ponder was even dumber than some of the examples I used:

A board investigating the crash of NASA’s Genesis spacecraft found that the design for a key system was drawn backward, resulting in improper orientation of switches that were supposed to detect its entry into Earth’s atmosphere and trigger deployment of its parachutes.

What else can I say? We lose a mission to Mars because someone forgets to convert meters to feet, and now this.

Meanwhile, SpaceShipOne is planning it’s fourth trip to outer space in the time it has taken NASA to revamp one shuttle.

I am really coming to the conclusion NASA needs to be dismantled at this time and all that funding be given out as competitve grants to private industry with very specific objectives and goals attached to each grant.

Anyone with me on that?

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    1. Man on Mars? | Moonage SpaceDream on May 24, 2009 8:40 pm

      [...] Secondly, noted astronomers and the like have immediately debunked the claim that this is a Martian by asserting that the image is a rock cropping a few feet from the Rover.  In other words, it’s too small to be much of a living thing.  And, since NASA has been unable to find any semblence of life, even microbial, they must be right huh? [...]

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