Genesis failure

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 12:06:36 EDT

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The mission is a failure, it appears:(

The parachutes didn't open, and it hit the ground at a high rate of speed.

They had video, showing the capsule rotating, with no parachutes open. They then showed the
capsule in the ground, ooch!

Kevin



		
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