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[Jeff7]

But, the loss of a little technology test probe pales in comparison to the loss of MCO due to the english vs metric unit thing. In my opinion, that blunder was embarassing and unforgivable. I'd give the guys responsible for that one a lot more time in the hairshirt than the JAXA guys who forgot to put in the software interlock.

Or Genesis. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the gravity sensor that would have told the parachute to deploy was put in upside down.


Ah, found a link. Here.

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.

Oops.
Also of note, this was after MCO "buried," as Robin Williams put it.