Editor's note: The material below was prepared before Genesis' Sept.
8 landing, during which the drogue parachute and parafoil
did not deploy.
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Little Genesis Glitz
Scientists on NASA's Genesis mission, due to return
Sept. 8, use sapphire, silicon, gold and diamond
to collect raw solar wind particles in outer space.
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NASA
Genesis Spacecraft on Final Lap Toward Home
A sample return capsule will re-enter Earth's atmosphere
for a planned mid-air capture on Sept. 8. (5.5.04) +
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Studying
the Raw Material of the Sun
Genesis brought back a tiny sampling of the raw material of the Sun, a sample weighing no more than a few grains of salt. (8.16.04) + View release>>
Spacecraft
Locks Vault on its Payload
On April 1, NASA's Genesis team at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., ordered the spacecraft's
collectors deactivated and stowed. (4. 5.04) + View release>>
Anticipating
return: Hex marks the spot
A tile on the desert floor at the Utah Test and
Training Range marks the spot over which the Genesis
sample return mid-air capture will occur. + More >>
Team members mark the spot of return
Team members mark the spot of mid-air sample return
capture.
Apollo
and Shuttle astronaut Ken Mattingly met with
the Genesis team. Also pictured are Genesis project
manager Don Sweetnam and principal investigator
Don Burnett.
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Here Comes the Sun Genesis is
the agency's first sample return mission since the
last Apollo mission in 1972, and the first ever
to return material collected beyond the Moon. + View Feature >>
