In September 2004, NASA’s Genesis return sample capsule tumbled from the sky and slammed into the Utah desert in a remote part of the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, shattering […]

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Image: Don Burnett, Genesis principal investigator, examines samples upon their return in Utah. Ever since astronauts returned from another world, scientists have been mystified by some of the moon rocks […]

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NASA Genesis Mishap Report – Executive Summary NASA has posted the Genesis Mission Mishap Investigation Board Report on the agency’s Web site. The report details the findings of the 15-member […]

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Scientists have closely examined four Genesis spacecraft collectors, vital to the mission’s top science objective, and found them in excellent shape, despite the spacecraft’s hard landing last year. Scientists at […]

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NASA scientists have sent to academic researchers an unprecedented piece of the sun gathered by the Genesis spacecraft, enabling the start of studies to achieve the mission’s initial science objectives. […]

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Scientists are optimistic that samples of the Sun that arrived in Houston on Monday will provide important information on the history and origin of the solar system. Following an extensive […]

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The recent crash of NASA’s Genesis space probe may have looked like bad news for scientists, but its cargo of particles captured from the sun should still yield useful information, […]

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The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe regarding today’s Genesis Sample Return Mission at the U.S. Air Force Test and Training Range, Dugway Proving Ground, southwest of […]

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NASA’s Genesis spacecraft crossed the orbit of the Moon early Monday, Sept. 6, on its way to the mission’s dramatic finale over the skies of west-central Utah tomorrow. Genesis, bringing […]

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Next week, NASA’s Genesis mission returns samples of the solar wind to Earth. Helicopters will capture the sample capsule in mid-air over Utah’s salt flats. The primary location of events […]

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Scientists expect to get the most detailed look at a hypervelocity re-entry when NASA uses an aerial laboratory to observe the fiery return of the Genesis sample return capsule from […]

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In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA’s Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of […]

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A news briefing about the upcoming midair capture of the Genesis space capsule will be held at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 19. […]

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The Genesis mission was launched in August of 2001 to capture samples from the storehouse of 99-percent of all the material in our solar system – the Sun. The samples […]

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Hollywood stunt pilots are working with NASA’s Genesis mission to capture the first samples returned from space since Apollo 17 returned Moon rocks in 1972. A media event surrounding the […]

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Since October 2001 NASA’s Genesis spacecraft has exposed specially designed collector arrays of sapphire, silicon, gold and diamond to the Sun’s solar wind. That collection of pristine particles of the […]

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Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, and I say […]

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