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When things fall from space N.A.S.A. gets pissed.
Is it just me that is unable to see that link? It appears you have to be a Comcast subscriber to view it.
ys8er that url is for a log on screen! I did find the storey you was trying to send people to tho
http://www.comcast.net/News/GENERAL//XML/1501_Science/b4337c5d-af0d-4c79-aebb-78d82931e085.htmlno it should work because I can veiw it w/o being logged in, and I was posting the video link not the story link.
Ah, thanks mdande. I don’t understand where you got the ‘NASA gets pissed’ part from ys8er, could you explain where in the article you got that impression?
Interesting that they were trying to grab it with a hook, I guess that the craft couldn’t withstand the impact even if the parachute had properly deployed?
well wouldnt you be mad if you put millions of dollars into something and have it crash down into pieces?
But I wished that the parachutes opened so they could’ve grabbed the parachute in mid-air.
leave it to the simplest peace of technology that was probly on it to fail.. a million dollar space capsule and nasa is going to use helicopters to snag it in mid air. I could of came up with better plans then that lol
mdande is right. The simplest thing on the $260 Million dollar project,the parachutes, don’t even deploy. So the stuntmen are sitting there, a mile above the Utah Desert, thinking, “Wasn’t there supposed to be a parachute coming from that thing?”
Quote:quote:”This is actually not the worst-case scenario,” said Andrew Dantzler, director of NASA’s solar system division, noting the capsule embedded itself in soft desert soil and avoided hitting anything harder that would have made it a “total loss.”So, NASA is not p’oed. They are dissapointed, yes, but they are planning to take two-four months to determine just what went wrong. That sounds like some pretty smart people to me.
Quote:quote:Flight engineers suspect a set of tiny explosives failed to trigger the capsule’s parachutes, and the capsule slammed into the Utah desert at 193 mph.Sadly, they had problems with these “tiny explosives” as their trigger mechanisms for the parachutes throughout testing. They still had trouble with them it appears…well that is science, you keep testing and trying again despite your losses. Repetition is the key to good and successful data.
Your assumptions of NASA are a little off, but I did find the article rather interesting, I love space and science. Thank you for posting it…just be more respectful of NASA next time, they may be my future employer 😉
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