Testing to Assure Mission Success: A Look Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory Viewing this video through your browser in Quicktime requires a minimum connection of 56K.

This video documents work done for NASA's Genesis mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Roger Wiens, the project team lead for the Genesis mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been working with mission concept and design since its inception in the early 1990s. Since 1997, the team at Los Alamos has set in progress and carried through a series of investigations and data collection through instrumentation testing that has served to inform both mission and spacecraft design, as well as ensure the success of the Genesis spacecraft and mission. The spacecraft is presently performing admirably in its "collection" mode, collecting solar wind particles streaming outward from the sun. It will return in September 2004 with its precious cargo, when the analysis phase of the mission will begin.

The video is approximately 10 minutes long. The CD-ROM version is in an MPEG format, and is compatible with the default video player on either PC or Macintosh. The VHS version provides the option of closed caption for the hearing impaired. The video, funded by NASA as a part of the Genesis mission, is a public domain product, and may be freely shown, copied and distributed for purposes other than profit.

Featured Los Alamos scientists:

Roger C. Wiens—LANL Genesis Project Leader		Bruce L. Barraclough—LANL Monitors Lead Scientist	Beth Nordholt and Pallas Papin view the scanning electron microscope.
John T. Steinberg—LANL Space Scientist		Eric E.Dors—LANL Space Scientist	Genesis ion monitor gets a thumbs-up on the shake table.

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