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NASA's uncrewed spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

Historical image related to NASA's uncrewed spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. from September 8, 2004

Genesis (spacecraft)

NASA sample return probe

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 since the Apollo program, and the first to return material from beyond the orbit of the…
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