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Re: Genesis Capsule Crashes

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Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007
No you are not!

This is yet another screw up by NASA. What I don't understand is how in the universe would NASA be able to plant 2 rovers on Mars, a planet we know just a little about, and NOT be able to land safely a small capsule with solar data on it on this very Earth? It's the planet we live on. It just seems obsurd.
To give them credit (sort of), they managed to mess up quite a few times on Mars, also...

Does anyone have any idea how large that capsule is (maybe the diameter of the heat shield)? Because it seems pretty amazing for a capsule to be that well intact if its anything more than a foot or two in diamater...
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