Space Probe Fails to Deploy Its Parachute and Crashes
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NASA's $264 million Genesis mission came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday morning, when a capsule returning with samples of the Sun slammed into the desert.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A science probe making NASA's first foray into the asteroid belt missed its summer launch window, jeopardizing NASA's first attempt to orbit two bodies with a single spacecraft, officials said on Sunday.
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It shouldn&#39;t happen to a scientist: investigators have found that the $250m (Â£139m) Genesis space probe, which crash-landed in the Utah desert last month, failed because the switches designed to trigger its parachute were installed backwards.
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NASA's best effort to find a missing Mars space probe have failed, scientists said Tuesday as they began to lose hope for the 10-year-old planet-mapping workhorse.
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This is the moment that the painstaking research from a three-year, $250m (Â£140m) mission in space crashed headlong to Earth. The cargo - weighing only as much as a few
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A faulty control cable caused the glitch that subjected two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler to a rough trip back to Earth, according to a report Tuesday.
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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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The Genesis space capsule that crashed into the Utah desert last month failed because four pencil stub-size gravity switches designed to trigger the release of the spacecraft&#39;s parachutes
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The US space agency NASA says incorrectly installed switches are the likely cause of the crash earlier this year of the Genesis space capsule.
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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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Problems with switches aboard NASA&#39;s Genesis solar probe may have kept its parachute from opening, which led to the craft&#39;s crash-landing in the Utah desert, the US space agency said.
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Europe's first probe to the Moon, SMART-1, crashed onto the lunar surface as scheduled at 7.42 am (0542 GMT) Sunday, ending a successful 16-month mission, the European Space Agency announced.
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A test of the planned US anti-missile defence shield fails in the first mission in almost two years.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah, Sept. 8 &#0151; A NASA capsule bearing precious atomic specimens that Hollywood stunt pilots were prepared to catch as it came into earth's atmosphere crashed into the desert this morning after a parachute that was to slow its fall failed to deploy.
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The main oxygen generator on the International Space Station has failed, but NASA said Thursday there is plenty of oxygen on board to sustain the station&#39;s inhabitants for the foreseeable future.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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PASADENA, Calif.  - A space capsule returning  solar particles to Earth after a three-year mission that probed  the origins of the solar system crashed in the Utah desert  before it could be captured in a mid-air recovery, officials at  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.