Flawed drawings caused spacecraft crash
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Investigators may have discovered what caused the Genesis spacecraft to crash into the Utah desert this September. Some crucial switches were installed backwards, because of an error in the instructions.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA's Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft's crash-landing in the Utah desert, the U.S. space agency said.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  HOUSTON - Six processors on two computers began crashing on the Russian side of the international space station Tuesday, limiting the spacecraft's ability to maneuver and produce oxygen. By Friday evening, four of the six processors were up and running again.
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By Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 7--A system failure caused some glitches on the station, and the shuttle traveled a little too far into space, directors say, but for the most part the Columbia Aeronautic and Space Association mission is going well.
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The foam that struck the space  shuttle Columbia after liftoff and led to the deaths of all  seven astronauts on board was defective, NASA said on Friday.
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NASA engineers and their Russian counterparts are closing in on the source of a major computer glitch that afflicted the International Space Station (ISS) during last month&#39;s shuttle mission to the orbital laboratory.
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Problems with switches aboard NASA's  Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening,  which led to the craft's crash-landing in the Utah desert, the  U.S. space agency said.
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An investigating board says the capsule was doomed by faulty engineering drawings that were done backward. The drawings led to incorrect placement of switches that were supposed to detect Genesis' re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas has reported a  crash last weekend of their prototype X Prize rocket.
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By Traci Watson  The crew of space shuttle Discovery did an unplanned inspection of their ship's heat shield as a precaution Monday after sensors detected a possible glancing blow to the left wing earlier in the day.
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ANY one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found today.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press  After a program member's apparent breakdown, the agency reveals it has procedures for problems in space.   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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Faulty switches have been identified as the most likely cause of the Genesis sample-return capsule&#39;s crash landing in Utah, US, last month.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY - A preliminary investigation shows faulty switches caused the parachute system of NASA&#39;s Genesis mission to fail.
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NASA says a poorly designed parachute is the likely reason its space probe, Genesis, came crashing back to earth last week, losing much of its cargo of solar dust.
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David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon.