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farewell party in the HAB today for the Genesis team, as the program was officially shut down at the end of July. This past week was the final few days of clearing out offices/equipment. We're happy tho that those we couldn't shift to other programs have been picked up by C7
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Kerbin Weather Service has sent a team here to fly weather missions in the Deuce and contract pilots will handle Civvie flights for regional pollen sampling. Both aircraft are now being operated by KSC and will not be tracked or included in KSA operations
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all 3 aircraft developed under the program will continue to be produced and flown of course, and we look forward to seeing what the teams at C7 come up with in the future! Wernher's R&D dept is still partnered with C7 Aerospace Division to work on jet technology
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over the course of this month we'll be recapping the various important missions and milestones of the Genesis program, which operated from Oct 2016 to Jul 2020. You can also do your own historical research here on the KSA website program page: kerbalspace.agency/?page_id=2071
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any landing you can walk away from... sadly (not shown) we did lose a crew member to one failed landing but thankfully the ones shown here only resulted in minor injuries. All photos from Genesis missions can be found in this flickr album: flickr.com/photos/kerbal_…
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Genesis ended as our 2nd-most successful and profitable program behind KerBalloon, giving us 33,413 funds in net income that will now go towards rocket development. Here are some more impressive stats from nearly 4 years of operation
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still our favorite photo from the Genesis program, Captain Jeb gives his enthusiastic approval after his first flight of the Civvie's revamped design that went on to production for private & commercial use today. He of course owns one as well
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the Genesis program worked with the Progenitor program to successfully launch a rocket from an aircraft, one of its most astounding accomplishments. You can read the full details of the attempt and its development history here: kerbalspace.agency/?p=8264
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The Genesis program also worked with the KerBalloon program for a similar purpose, but after a few missions found that dropping KerBalloons from the belly of a Civvie was not as cost-effective as was hoped & also introduced complex deployment problems
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here's a look back at the 1st flights for all Genesis' major designs - the original Civvie (Val - kerbalspace.agency/?p=2182), Civvie final production model (Jeb - kerbalspace.agency/?p=3086), Deuce (Jeb - kerbalspace.agency/?p=4295) and Dhumla (Aldeny & Tedman - kerbalspace.agency/?p=8581)
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and now the grand finale in our recap of the Genesis program, a look at the flight paths for all 125 missions! You can do the same thing on the bit.ly/Ops_Tracker, although the coloring by aircraft type was specially done for these images
