The Whirly Bird did not catch the urn !!
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Not much hope. The picture of the buried capsule is interesting, though.
Launched in 2001 and returned today, both the same way, with a bang. I am with you, I hope the data can be retrived and not damaged. It will be interesting to monitor this.
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Originally posted by 59 Vetteman:
Launched in 2001 and returned today, both the same way, with a bang. I am with you, I hope the data can be retrived and not damaged. It will be interesting to monitor this.
Not likely
As the NASA spokesman said something like this this morning "under the previous head of NASA they were into cost cutting which really means cutting corners" Guess this is the result. No parachute or airfoil resulting from too much turbulence. Hope they get some data for the $300 mill spent.
For many years the Air Force caught capsules out over the Pacific with C119's and C130's. They lost a few but got really good at it.
http://www.hrw.com/science/si-science/earth/spacetravel/spacerace/SpaceRace/sec400/sec430.html
http://www.hrw.com/science/si-science/earth/spacetravel/spacerace/SpaceRace/sec400/sec430.html
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I don't know if I'd trust the same fellas, who mixed up metric and avoirdupois, with a parachute.
I don't know any details about this project, but just to lay a little layer of sarcasm on mori's post - with these guys, every once in awhile itsa forest and trees thing.....
They can guide some unmanned flying saucer back from the sun, pick the exact place for it to re-enter the atmosphere so as it will land in a spot with folks waiting and not burn up.......yet the shoots don't open......because Fred was peeing and someone forgot to drop his algorithm because it was just lowly air flow calcs...
(actually not true, these guys sweat parachute stuff big time.....)
They can guide some unmanned flying saucer back from the sun, pick the exact place for it to re-enter the atmosphere so as it will land in a spot with folks waiting and not burn up.......yet the shoots don't open......because Fred was peeing and someone forgot to drop his algorithm because it was just lowly air flow calcs...
(actually not true, these guys sweat parachute stuff big time.....)
Maybe I was a bit pessimistic:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002032079_webgenesis10.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002032079_webgenesis10.html
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