NASA must feel bruised by capsule&#39;s botched landing
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Have you ever ordered, say, a new laptop online, and you were so excited about it that you kept hitting Fedex.com&#39;s package tracker nine times an hour, day after day, like a lab rat flicking a lever to get his next hit of smack?
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WASHINGTON : NASA&#39;s Genesis capsule slammed into the Utah desert after its parachutes failed, leaving scientists unsure if they could retrieve the bits of solar dust captured on its three-year mission.
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In what should have been the &quot;home stretch&quot; of their six-month orbital expedition, the crew of the international space station is struggling with new problems in their critical oxygen production system.
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This is a sad day for the NASA Family. Yesterday&#39;s vanpool accident involving employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has taken the lives of three of our own: Dorothy M. Forks, an employee records
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The reaction to NASA's still-secret air safety survey.
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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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Parachute problems forced NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft to slam into the Utah desert Wednesday and may have ruined an expensive and delicate attempt to study the origins of the solar system.
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Cape Canaveral - Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom other shuttles.
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Much of the science from NASA&#39;s Genesis space capsule, which crashed in Utah on 8 September, will probably be salvaged, mission scientists say.
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The [Genesis] capsule hit so hard that half of it was lodged in the ground, where it was stuck at a 10 degree angle, said NASA flight operations director Roy Haggard, who was aboard one of the
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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The day after the Genesis space capsule crashes in the Utah desert, NASA technicians comb through the wreckage hoping to salvage something from the $264 million mission. Amit Asaravala reports from Salt Lake City.
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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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NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.
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One of the ironies of Wednesdayâs flight of SpaceShipOne is that those who had the worst view of the flightâand the drama that unfolded during the ascentâwere the members of the media who came to report on the event.
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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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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.