# R.I.P. - Genesis Space Capsule **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665 "2004-09-08T22:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/1 "2004-09-08T22:37:10Z")
> Instead of the smooth midair retrieval NASA expected, the $264 million Genesis mission to study the solar wind ended in a crater in the Utah desert Wednesday. > [size=1]**(**[/size][[size=1] **http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/08/genesis.crash.cnn/** [/size]](http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/08/genesis.crash.cnn/)[size=1]**)**[/size] > **[size=1][/size]** > This is a sad day indeed. He is survived by Genesis Jr. and a loving IBM supercomputer back in Dallas. His immediate family was unable to offer a comment to my repeated pingings. 👁 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/2 "2004-09-08T22:37:54Z")
So did those guys in the planes not catch it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/3 "2004-09-08T22:43:37Z")
> [@Krilnon](#): > > So did those guys in the planes not catch it? The capsule was supposed to release a parachute a few miles prior to hitting the ground. EDIT: Oops - forgot to answer your question. Um…no lol! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/4 "2004-09-08T23:01:10Z")
Yea, I read about this a few days ago before the crash on Wired. They should’ve just given the $250,000,000.00 to me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/5 "2004-09-08T23:02:47Z")
Oh yeah I heard about this… millions of dollars wasted, well not completely. It did do its intended job except now they have to search the crash site for space dirt. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/6 "2004-09-08T23:04:32Z")
I think that it did send some of the data while it was in space. What researchers may have lost is the tiny samples of dust or whatever it is called that it collected 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/7 "2004-09-08T23:45:04Z")
From [collecting] dust, it returneth to dust… Heard it was stuntmen in choppers that were supposed the catch the hot ball ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/8 "2004-09-09T00:12:23Z")
> [@mlk](#): > > From [collecting] dust, it returneth to dust… > > Heard it was stuntmen in choppers that were supposed the catch the hot ball ? Yup, well stunt pilots. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/9 "2004-09-09T00:15:55Z")
Yeah - they supposedly practiced catching a capsule-like object about 17 times in preparation for this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/10 "2004-09-09T00:21:49Z")
Well that sucks. Imagine being one of the stunt pilots and seeing that thing plummeting towards the earth. \< Cockpit Voice Recorder \> Pilot 1: ‘hey what’s that thing there?’:pa: Pilot 2: ‘I don’t know.’ :mu: Pilot 1: ‘Is that what we’re supposed to catch?’ :hr: Pilot 2: ’ I think so…but I don’t see any parachute’ :ninja: _Space Capsule Crashes_ Pilot 1: ‘think we’l still get paid?’ :hr: :lol: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/11 "2004-09-09T01:37:38Z")
> [@CanadianGuy](#): > > Well that sucks. Imagine being one of the stunt pilots and seeing that thing plummeting towards the earth. > > \< Cockpit Voice Recorder \> > > Pilot 1: ‘hey what’s that thing there?’:pa: > Pilot 2: ‘I don’t know.’ :mu: > Pilot 1: ‘Is that what we’re supposed to catch?’ :hr: > Pilot 2: ’ I think so…but I don’t see any parachute’ :ninja: > > _Space Capsule Crashes_ > > Pilot 1: ‘think we’l still get paid?’ :hr: > > :lol: ``` Canadian Guy that is the most inaccurate storyline i ever seen.... you forgot to give them the names! Pilot1 = Fester Pilot2 = Disco-Stu :p::rabbit: ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/12 "2004-09-09T08:14:12Z")
they say they can still test the samples in the capsule cause they’ll be ok fiver says that when they waste millions testing those samples and realise all the sundust is under the sand and they’ve been testing earth sand ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/13 "2004-09-09T19:12:28Z")
That sucks. A lot of money down the drain. And speaking of money wasted, what ever happened to that Mars rover thing they landed? Last I remember, it was down on the planet’s surface, but they couldn’t communicate with it. What happened? Did they never get it to work like it was supposed to and hoped to just sweep it under the rug? I think another country was sending a similar rover to the other side of the planet. Anybody know what happened with that? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/14 "2004-09-09T19:15:14Z")
I thought it was supposed to land like that, half-embedded and spraying earth as far as the eye can see? Every earth landing should be made with retro-rocket landings. More sci-fi and more enjoyable. EDIT: Opportunity and Spirit Rover data is being collected now. After it’s collected it won’t be published. NASA: It will be published… when it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/15 "2004-09-09T19:36:06Z")
Imagine it’d hit a cow… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/16 "2004-09-09T19:43:07Z")
> [@Eilsoe](#): > > Imagine it’d hit a cow… Lol, that cow would’ve stopped it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/r-i-p-genesis-space-capsule/63665/17 "2004-09-09T20:12:30Z")
Uhhh, they didn’t collect sand… They collected particles and ions from the sun onto metal plates… Apparently having the genesis crash was just a big pain in the butt.