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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A likely cause of Genesis&#39; failure appears to be four so-called gravity switches that were installed backward because of errors in Lockheed Martin&#39;s design drawings.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO  HOUSTON - While engineers try to determine what caused the failure of Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation, oxygen and water supplies, a NASA official said Thursday he doesn't consider the situation critical.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft, this time in a moon rocket that hasn't even been built yet.
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A &#36;239 million satellite toppled to a factory floor last year because nobody bothered to check that it was secure before moving it, according to a NASA investigation board's report on the mishap.
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Genesis project officials failed to catch the flaw that doomed the Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft despite extra layers of scrutiny added after two of the company&#39;s other NASA probes failed.
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An ambitious plan to pluck a falling space capsule from the sky with helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots went awry when the capsule&#39;s parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert.
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Images from the spacecraft show two craters that may have been altered by the recent flow of water
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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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LONDON  -- 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.      A six-month inquiry by project organisers, their second attempt to discover what went wrong with the mission, was unable to pinpoint why the tiny craft vanished shortly before it landed on Mars on Christmas Day last year...
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NASA knows Columbia sustained damage on liftoff. But engineers' concerns get swept aside by mission control, at the cost of seven lives. Compiled by Tony Long.
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A federal agency blames improper rudder use and poor Airbus design for the Flight 587 crash that killed 265 in 2001. WASHINGTON - American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City
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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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Russian and U.S. space scientists reported multiple computer problems late Wednesday and early Thursday aboard the International Space Station.  Russian controllers in Moscow reported navigation computers in the Russian section of the space station malfunctioned.
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Russian computers controlling the International Space Station's position and supply of oxygen and water fail.
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Design and structural faults were to blame for the fatal collapse of a terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport last year, a French administrative inquiry said in a report made public.
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A faulty battery has emerged as one of the likeliest causes for the crash-landing of the Genesis space probe. Scientists have been removing pieces of dirt and mud that lodged in the damaged canister after it smashed at high speed into the Utah desert.