Genesis mishap - backward design drawing

I always said that hiring low cost CAD Techs created problems....

Genesis mishap probe focuses on backward design drawing

By John Antczak
ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:36 p.m. October 15, 2004

LOS ANGELES – A board investigating the crash of NASA's Genesis
spacecraft found that the design for a key system was drawn backward,
resulting in improper orientation of switches that were supposed to
detect its entry into Earth's atmosphere and trigger deployment of its
parachutes.

"The design drawings are not correct," Michael G. Ryschkewitsch,
chairman of the mishap investigation board, said Friday in a
conference call with reporters. He emphasized that the findings were
not complete.

The improper orientation was not the fault of technicians, who
followed faulty directions.

The design drawing was produced by Lockheed Martin Astronautics, which
built Genesis for NASA, Ryschkewitsch said.

How the faulty design escaped detection during reviews was also under
investigation, he said.

 

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Sounds like the classic 1st angle design vs. 3rd angle build problem.

Anyone know if unit was designed in one country and built in another?

GmcD