Anouther NASA boomsticker

Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:14 am

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa001&articleID=000A0D39-7893-1178-AD6883414B7F0000

After traveling 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth to obtain bits of the solar wind, NASA's first automated sample-return mission, Genesis, ended in a crash in the Utah desert on September 8.

I think that even though NASA is supposed to have the brightest minds in the world, they still arn't smart enough.

Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:50 am

A little late in the news, are we?

It's not really a question of brightness, you know. The thing was (probably) brilliantly designed, but there are so many things that can go wrong in a spacecraft.

Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:29 am

Hey at least we are trying to learn. Didn't the new funding bill for NASA get approved as well. I think they were just given a huge budget increase.

fuu

Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:46 am

We should fire Nasa and give burt rutan all the money and let him run free...

Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:08 am

Maybe it is a question of brightness.....

By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 16, 2004; Page A03

The Genesis space capsule that crashed into the Utah desert last month failed because four pencil stub-size gravity switches designed to trigger the release of the spacecraft's parachutes were installed backward, NASA officials said yesterday.

Michael G. Ryschkewitsch, chairman of NASA's Mishap Investigation Board, said engineers assembling the Genesis probe more than four years ago were misled by errors in designs prepared by Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. "The drawings are not correct," Ryschkewitsch said.

Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:01 pm

Originally posted by Bossman
Maybe it is a question of brightness.....

By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 16, 2004; Page A03

The Genesis space capsule that crashed into the Utah desert last month failed because four pencil stub-size gravity switches designed to trigger the release of the spacecraft's parachutes were installed backward, NASA officials said yesterday.

Michael G. Ryschkewitsch, chairman of NASA's Mishap Investigation Board, said engineers assembling the Genesis probe more than four years ago were misled by errors in designs prepared by Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. "The drawings are not correct," Ryschkewitsch said.

I knew it! They're all morons!

Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:46 pm

omg wtf
were all gunna die if we ever try to nuke somone
wont even take off more than a few thousand miles
xplode above new york.
i can picture the brilliant men administering our nuclear launch program

Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:33 pm

TO be fair, we put a lot more money into the nuclear program than NASA.

But they are like 40 years old...

Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:27 pm

Originally posted by deathBOB
TO be fair, we put a lot more money into the nuclear program than NASA.

But they are like 40 years old...

Yea, being able to destroy stuff we already know about is much more important then finding out about new stuff

Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:33 pm

Originally posted by Bossman
The Genesis space capsule that crashed into the Utah desert last month failed because four pencil stub-size gravity switches designed to trigger the release of the spacecraft's parachutes were installed backward, NASA officials said yesterday.

we will never get off the planet with these people in charge will we?

fuu

Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:01 pm

don't get mad at these people.
I think that most of us installs gravity switches backwards at least once in your life.

It happened to me twice last week!

Sun Dec 12, 2004 11:46 pm

Originally posted by LordShard
:rotflmao: I knew it! They're all morons!

Yeah, the guys who put men on the moon, run a shuttle program, put probes around almost every planet in our solar system, landed rovers on Mars, orbited a space telescope, have an orbiting international space station, etc.... they're all morons.

Pot calling kettle black..... :tard:

Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:27 am

Originally posted by hightimber
Yeah, the guys who put men on the moon, run a shuttle program, put probes around almost every planet in our solar system, landed rovers on Mars, orbited a space telescope, have an orbiting international space station, etc.... they're all morons.

Pot calling kettle black.....

Hey, if it only takes a 30% to pass physics with an A...... :roll:

Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:30 am

Originally posted by LordShard
Hey, if it only takes a 30% to pass physics with an A......

If it's so damned easy why don't you go take their jobs from them and show the morons how it's done? Talk is cheap.

Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:43 am

Originally posted by hightimber
If it's so damned easy why don't you go take their jobs from them and show the morons how it's done? Talk is cheap.

What makes you think the way they are doing things now is right? I woulnd't keep sending up small super expensive sattalites. I would do it in a way to get Corporate backers to finanace it. Maybe promise the company that backs you with promise that anything relative to their field of study they can patent.

Then you might have enough money to actually do something other than send a probe into the dirt every few months.

I mean come on, they have probes going to asteriod, we already know their made out of the same things everyone is. With maybe a very small exception every now and then.

If we are going to find any "new" stabstances occuring naturally it won't be in this solar system. But before we can even think about going to even the closest other system (alpha centarii) we would need to research something better than an ion drive, because it would take some thousands of years for an ion drive to reach alpha centarii, half the time spent speeding up, half the time spent slowing down.

We haven't even tried to do anything with men other than ordbit ourselves since we touched on the moon. So maybe, they arn't doing something right?