Back to front switches blamed for space probe crash
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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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Engineers tested Thursday whether a bad power feed going into the Russian side of the international space station was causing failures in computers that control the outpost's orientation and produce oxygen.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - The orbiting Discovery crew, en route Sunday to rewire the international space station, first had to make sure the shuttle's heat shield wasn't damaged during liftoff.
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DARMSTADT, Germany: Europe's first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission yesterday with a planned crash on the lunar surface, hitting its target at 2 kilometres per second, or 7,200 kilometres per hour.
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Faulty switches are identified as the most likely cause of the Genesis sample-return capsule's crash landing last month.
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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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Balky computers on the International Space Station were fully revived on Saturday, but crew members admitted the problem had worried them and served as a reminder that spaceflight is dangerous.
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NASA said Tuesday it is focusing on the wiring linking crucial fuel gauges into the liquid hydrogen tank as the likely cause of failures that forced the US space agency to scrub the space shuttle's launch earlier this month.
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NASA says the space capsule, built by Lockheed Martin, went down in the Utah desert because a crucial switch was put on backward. By John Johnson.
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NASA crews Thursday shipped to California the first bits of recovered scientific data from the Genesis probe crash in Utah&#39;s west desert earlier this month, according to a NASA news release.
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Astronaut Daniel Tani, orbiting Earth aboard the international space station, learned Wednesday that his mother had died in a car crash, marking what NASA officials believe is the first time a crew member has lost a close family member while in flight.
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HOUSTON -- Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle performed a back-flip Monday so crew on the international space station could photograph any signs of damage on the belly of Atlantis, which carried the first new addition to the space lab in 3 1/2 years.
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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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By Associated Press  HOUSTON -- Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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The crash of a capsule last month was likely to have been caused by a design flaw that led to the sensors that were to deploy the capsule's parachutes being pointed in the wrong direction, a NASA investigatory panel reported.