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Originally Posted by dlavery
- all we know so far is that the neither the drogue or main parachutes deployed, and it appears that the deployment mortar never fired to push the parachutes out of the spacecraft. We do not yet know why the mortar did not fire.
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The rumor around building 198 is that the Li/SO2 battery may have passivated and couldn't provide enough charge to fire the pyros. I also heard that what cratered into the Utah desert isn't the Genesis payload, but the UFO that collided with the "real" Genesis payload on descent.
-Kevin
Unfortunately our team missed out on a great opportunity to "learn from the pros" because we did student-centric things like insisting on having a student field coach. - Tom Bottiglieri [more] 
08-09-2004, 23:16
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