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NASA Hired Hollywood Stunt Pilots to Catch a Falling Spacecraft With a Fishing Hook. Four Upside-Down Switches Ruined It

NASA Hired Hollywood Stunt Pilots to Catch a Falling Spacecraft With a Fishing Hook. Four Upside-Down Switches Ruined It

On 8 September 2004, two helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots waited to catch NASA’s Genesis capsule in midair because its cargo was too fragile to touch the ground, but all four switches meant to sense the fall had been installed upside... Read more.

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