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  • Backward switches doomed probe Genesis slammed to Earth after parachutes failed

    06/14/2006 3:19:53 PM PDT · by Tulsa Ramjet · 28 replies · 660+ views
    AP ^ | Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Posted: 12:59 p.m. EDT | AP
    Scientists study pieces from NASA's Genesis probe after it crashed into the Utah desert in 2004. LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A report released Tuesday blamed a design flaw for the 2004 crash of a NASA space probe carrying solar wind atoms back to Earth and criticized engineers for failing to detect the error. The 231-page document prepared by independent investigators found that gravity switches on the Genesis probe designed to trigger the deployment of its parachutes were installed backward. Genesis' chutes never opened and it slammed into the Utah desert on September 8, 2004, after a three-year mission collecting...