Backward Drawings May Have Doomed Genesis

[Bossy Monkey]

Oct 15, 8:58 PM EDT

Backward Drawings May Have Doomed Genesis

By JOHN ANTCZAK
Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of the sun may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said Friday.

Because of the backward drawings, the switches that were supposed to detect Genesis' re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and trigger its parachutes were placed incorrectly, said Michael G. Ryschkewitsch, chairman of the board.

He emphasized, however, that the panel has not completed its findings on what went wrong with the $264 million mission to capture particles of the solar wind.

The design drawings were produced by Lockheed Martin Astronautics, which built Genesis for NASA, Ryschkewitsch said. How the mistake escaped detection is under investigation, he said.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GENESIS_CRASH?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

How did the mistake escape detection? Ummm, because they're morons?

[FlemingsGhost]

1. "Morons?" ... they are literally rocket scientists.

It must be so frustrating being perfect, in an imperfect world.

[DRoseDARs]

2. The article you've linked to is missing half of its content...

...from the version I saw much earlier today.

Favorite part: The people that fucked up the switches are THE SAME PEOPLE that fucked up the metric vs. english measuring for one of the Mars probes we lost a few years back.

[tridim]

3. Peter Gabriel's departure may have doomed Genesis

Probably not worth a copycat thread. :)

[FlemingsGhost]

5. LOL ... Phil as a front man, was certainly a step down.

Besides, he was too short for the carrot suit.

[Political_Junkie]

11. agreed

:)

[stepnw1f]

4. How Pathetically Desperate

Eckkkkk.....

[bobthedrummer]

6. Whatever happened to quality control and inspection???

Morans.

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. No cash for that. - tax gap ya know

Sorry, couldn't resist it. :)



"So I don't worry about, and people shouldn't
worry about a draft. . . I think we're in good
shape, I really do. And, if not, we'll -- I'll address
the nation. But I don't see any need to right now."
- G. W. Bush (Source: The Whitehouse)

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[Eye and Monkey]

9. Guvmen provided lotsa cash, but it was diverted to share-holders.

Much more important to give the money back to "the people" rather than something unneceassry like quality assurance.

[Eye and Monkey]

8. Just think what "missile defense" is likely to have screwed-up or missing

[whistle]

10. Could it be possible that the rocket scientist (s) using the drawings...

...suffer from aixelsyd?

[Bossy Monkey]

14. Big da Vinci fans n/t

[PartyPooper]

12. If I didn't know better, I'd say Junior was a participant in this SNAFU!

He fucks everything up!

:D

[w4rma]

13. Reversed negatives/microfiche or something similar, probably. (nt)