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Genesis space capsule crashes in Utah desert during retrieval fail
The Genesis capsule, after three years gathering solar wind atoms, crashed in Utah near the Dugway area during a retrieval attempt. Engineers say parachute failure caused the impact, risking contamination of the precious solar atoms and delaying plans to study the sun’s origin.
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Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Genesis
Genesis Project
Andrew Dantzler
NASA
Utah Desert
Salt
Roger Wiens
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Littleton
Colo
Denver
Don Burnett
California Institute of Technology
Burnett