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Genesis

Space Probe

Genesis was a NASA sample-return probe that collected particles of solar wind and returned them to Earth for laboratory analysis, the first NASA sample-return mission to bring back material since the Apollo program and the first ever to return material from beyond the orbit of the Moon. It launched on August 8, 2001, but a design flaw prevented its sample return capsule parachute from deploying, and the capsule crash-landed in Utah on September 8, 2004. The crash contaminated many of its sample collectors, though some were still successfully recovered and studied.

Facts
Spacecraft Type
Sample-return probe 2
Launch Date
2001-08-08 3
Status
Status (category)
Mission Complete / Ended 1
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Source Genesis (spacecraft) - Wikipedia
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1. Genesis (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)
achieving all of the mission's major science objectivesView the Source
2. Genesis (spacecraft) - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Mission type field
    NASA sample-return probe
  • In Group: Solar and Heliophysics Probes, Genesis was a NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample-return mission to return material sin
  • Operated By: NASA, Lead paragraph, operator
    Genesis was a NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis.
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3. Wikidata: Genesis
Wikidata Q74418, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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