GAH! Genesis spacecraft chutes fail to open!

[Fritzo]

Wonder if they'll be able to salvage anything?

 

[DaiShan]

no way, link? Stop funding NASA, they get all the high tech stuff done fine, the easy crap the botch.

 

[notfred]

Link, motherfvcker.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: DaiShan
no way, link? Stop funding NASA, they get all the high tech stuff done fine, the easy crap the botch.

Right moron, that's "easy crap" :disgust:

 

[Drakkon]

LMAO I was watching it they were like "it doesn't appear the chutes have opened" and it was tumbling over and over like crazy then all the sudden a big cloud of dust and a big ol mertal object in the ground. They say it hit at about 100mph...100mph my ass if somehtings is falling from space without a chute....
What i want to know is how did they get a camera there so quick???
It looks pretty broken...and something is crawling out...and saying "bbbbbrrrraaaaaiannnnnsssss"

 

[Passions]

You Got SERVED!!!!!!!!!!! bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaahahahahaha.

 

[loup garou]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5942268/

 

[JetBlack69]

http://www.cnn.com

 

[VictorLazlo]

Damnit! That sucks.

 

[911paramedic]

Repost.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
What i want to know is how did they get a camera there so quick???

it's probably from a satellite, LEO most likely.

 

[Armitage]

http://www.space.com/news/genesis_captured_040908.html

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
LMAO I was watching it they were like "it doesn't appear the chutes have opened" and it was tumbling over and over like crazy then all the sudden a big cloud of dust and a big ol mertal object in the ground. They say it hit at about 100mph...100mph my ass if somehtings is falling from space without a chute....
What i want to know is how did they get a camera there so quick???
It looks pretty broken...and something is crawling out...and saying "bbbbbrrrraaaaaiannnnnsssss"

They probably had people in the area to film the event, since helicopter pilots were supposed to snag the falling unit in mid-air. That was presuming the chutes had opened, though.

EDIT: From the Space.Com article.

Video taken from the ground followed the probe all the way to the surface, while NASA officials noted that the parachute had not opened, as planned.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Genesis was launched three years ago and was returning to Earth with billions of atoms collected from the solar wind.

Space virus anyone?

 

[isasir]

They should've had a guy on the ground yelling "I got it, I got it!"

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Genesis was launched three years ago and was returning to Earth with billions of atoms collected from the solar wind.

Space virus anyone?

Virus was on the SciFi channel last night....

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
LMAO I was watching it they were like "it doesn't appear the chutes have opened" and it was tumbling over and over like crazy then all the sudden a big cloud of dust and a big ol mertal object in the ground. They say it hit at about 100mph...100mph my ass if somehtings is falling from space without a chute....
What i want to know is how did they get a camera there so quick???
It looks pretty broken...and something is crawling out...and saying "bbbbbrrrraaaaaiannnnnsssss"

Terminal Velocity
It probably reentered at a much higher velocity, but once it's done pushing through the atmosphere, it going considerably slower.

 

[blakeatwork]

Call me weird, and uninformed...

but, couldn't they have come up with a reentry plan that had a higher chance of succeeding that didn't involved cloth and bungee cords?? I mean really, they're pinning 230 million US taxpayer dollars in funding on something that, at times, has a hard time deploying for a human being, let alone a piece of inanimate equipment.. I really have a hrd time beleiving that that is the best that NASA could come up with..

no wonder the bloody shuttle blew up, with Einstein's like that on the ground...

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Call me weird, and uninformed...

but, couldn't they have come up with a reentry plan that had a higher chance of succeeding that didn't involved cloth and bungee cords?? I mean really, they're pinning 230 million US taxpayer dollars in funding on something that, at times, has a hard time deploying for a human being, let alone a piece of inanimate equipment.. I really have a hrd time beleiving that that is the best that NASA could come up with..

no wonder the bloody shuttle blew up, with Einstein's like that on the ground...

Suggestions?
Parachutes are the simplest, lightest, most reliable recovery systems available. We'll have to see what went wrong.

You guys all seem to think this is easy :disgust:

 

[dquan97]

do'h!

 

[NFS4]

R

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Call me weird, and uninformed...

but, couldn't they have come up with a reentry plan that had a higher chance of succeeding that didn't involved cloth and bungee cords?? I mean really, they're pinning 230 million US taxpayer dollars in funding on something that, at times, has a hard time deploying for a human being, let alone a piece of inanimate equipment.. I really have a hrd time beleiving that that is the best that NASA could come up with..

no wonder the bloody shuttle blew up, with Einstein's like that on the ground...

Suggestions?
Parachutes are the simplest, lightest, most reliable recovery systems available. We'll have to see what went wrong.

You guys all seem to think this is easy :disgust:

It's not easy at all... however, after how many years sending shyte up into space, you'd figure they'd have developed something that's a little more fail-proof, or at the very least, resistant...

And simple does NOT involve a mid-air catch by a helicopter using a pole...

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: DaiShan
no way, link? Stop funding NASA, they get all the high tech stuff done fine, the easy crap the botch.

You should apply for a job at NASA as a rocket scientist, because you sure seem to be as smart as one.

 

[Stojakapimp]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Call me weird, and uninformed...

but, couldn't they have come up with a reentry plan that had a higher chance of succeeding that didn't involved cloth and bungee cords?? I mean really, they're pinning 230 million US taxpayer dollars in funding on something that, at times, has a hard time deploying for a human being, let alone a piece of inanimate equipment.. I really have a hrd time beleiving that that is the best that NASA could come up with..

no wonder the bloody shuttle blew up, with Einstein's like that on the ground...

Suggestions?
Parachutes are the simplest, lightest, most reliable recovery systems available. We'll have to see what went wrong.

You guys all seem to think this is easy :disgust:

There's nothing easy about sending a refrigerator into space, having it collect atoms from solar winds, and then reentering back to Earth. But you'd think that if they could do that, they should be able to do something easier like landing the damn thing so that they can complete their mission. If they can't recover any of that data, that's a lot of money down the tube because of their incompetence.

 

[jjones]

What they really needed was a huge catcher's mit.