Genesis Auger - End of Manned Capsule Worship?

On 8 Sep 2004 11:13:16 -0700, wrote:

It is not hard to imagine a similar result with a manned
capsule. Perhaps Constellation will have wings after all.

- Ed Kyle

I don't believe the Genesis had a backup parachute system that
a manned capsule would have had.

Manned capsule landings:

Vostok - 6

Mercruy - 6

Voskhod - 2

Gemini - 10

Soyuz - 89 (not counting Soyuz TMA-4 currently in orbit on the ISS,
but counting two successful launch aborts).

Apollo - 15

Shenzhou - 1

So there have been 129 manned capsule landings with 1-failure (Soyuz
1) and one
partial failure (Apollo 15 - one parachute collapsed ). Both of those
failures were over 30-years ago.

- Rusty Barton