[Az-Geocaching] NASA in mourning

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This is a bit off topic (unless they use GPS technology?) but we probably lost the data from the Genesis project (geez, I sound like a Star Trek Movie!) this morning. 

The project, collecting atoms and data from the sun for the past 4 years (at a cost of, um, 260 mill) was supposed to re-enter and land with the help of parachutes, and they were even worried about a chute-controlled landing....they had stunt chopper pilots ready to snag the chute to give it an even softer landing.

Instead, the chutes failed to open and the refrigerator-sized capsule crashed to earth in Utah, creating a big crator. All that technology and the CHUTE fails??

We hope they can recover some of the data. In the meantime, NASA flags are at half mast (just kidding)

Jim, anything to add?

Trisha "Lightning"
Prescott Vly