Friday, October 15, 2004

Our Space Program Tax Dollars at Work

Faulty installation of switch doomed Genesis, NASA says: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Faulty installation of switch doomed Genesis, NASA says

A `gravity switch' was backward and failed to trigger 2 parachutes, an investigator says.

By John Johnson
Los Angeles Times
Posted October 15 2004

NASA's Genesis space capsule crashed in the Utah desert last month because a critical piece of equipment that was supposed to trigger the release of two parachutes apparently was installed backward, space-agency officials said Thursday."

Is this a sad commentary, or what?

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