Scientists salvage some Genesis materials

[Richardo]

...and no, we do NOT mean a bootleg of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" :evilgrin: :spank:
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AP-San Jose Mercury-News

SALT LAKE CITY - NASA scientists said Friday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule, which crashed this week in the Utah desert.

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"We have some solar-wind wafers that are still intact," said physicist Roger C. Wiens of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which designed one of the devices that trapped the solar bits during the 884-day mission.

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The Genesis space capsule crashed while returning to Earth on Wednesday, slamming into the ground at nearly 200 mph after parachutes failed to open. It cracked open like a clamshell, and left an inner canister containing the disks badly damaged.

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Those platters were packed so tightly in the wreckage of the crash, it took scientists more than a day to pry them apart and inspect the precious cargo.


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/9...
http://www.genesismission.org

*whew* :eyes:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. I hope they didn't lose anything from the Peter Gabriel era (nt)

[Xenus Sister]

2. Especially not Selling England, Foxtrot or Lamb Lies Down on Broadway!!

Those are my favorites.

(old fart fan since 1973, saw 'em twice live with Gabriel...whooo!)