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Michael Ryschkewitsch
Michael Ryschkewitsch (born 1951) is the Space Exploration Sector Head at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). He formerly served as the Chief Engineer of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Education and Career.
Michael Ryschkewitsch earned a B.S. in physics from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University. He joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1982 to work as a cryogenics engineer on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission. He worked on
and breaking the contact again at 3 "g" to start the parachute release sequence. Instead, no contact was ever made.
The same general parachute concept was also used on the Stardust cometary sample return spacecraft, which landed successfully in 2006.
NASA investigation board chair Michael Ryschkewitsch noted that none of the stringent review procedures at NASA had picked up a mistake, saying, "It would be very easy to mix this up."
This mishap is similar to the original event that inspired Edward A. Murphy,