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12HDSpace Mistakes: How NASA Failures Furthered Exploration30mCosmic Frontiers
A spacecraft free-falls from orbit and smashes into the ground when its parachute fails to deploy.
A spacecraft free-falls from orbit and smashes into the ground when its parachute fails to deploy.
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S1, EP4 "The End of Genesis"A spacecraft free-falls from orbit and smashes into the ground when its parachute fails to deploy.
The science of exploration is imperfect, and sometimes NASA must learn the hard way.
Original Air Date: Mar 1, 2017
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