Originally Posted by
evamodel00
Yeah i'm really surprised that it was scrapped. It seemed like it was an incredibly useful technology. Especially since what I most recently read on it made it seem like it was error on the part of the crew, and not a mechanical malfunction (someone care to comment on that?).
Anyways, thanks for the info!
From the little I know of it, the rockets were all manually fired and some of them were fired either out of sequence or too early causing the hard landing and subsequent breakup.