Bill Moffitt's Weblog

Wednesday September 08, 2004

It's the small things that count, sometimes I am very bummed by the crash of Genesis in the Utah dessert. It was a cool project that would have brought back some very, very interesting information about the solar system.

It was launched over three years ago,  flew flawlessly, intercepted the earth, separated as designed, and the drogue chute failed to deploy, turning a multi-million-dollar space probe into a big lump in the middle of a salt flat.

Sometimes it's the most rudimentary things that mess you up...
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