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The Condition of the Materials Returned by the Genesis Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Karen M. McNamara
Karen M. McNamara*
Affiliation:
Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, TX 77058, U.S.A.
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The Genesis mission returned to Earth on September 8, 2004 after a nearly flawless three-year mission to collect solar matter. The intent was to deploy a drogue chute and parafoil high over the Utah desert and to catch the fragile payload capsule in mid-air by helicopter. Unfortunately, both chutes failed to deploy, causing the capsule to fall to the desert floor at a speed of nearly 200 MPH. Still, Genesis represents a milestone in the US space program, comprising the first sample return since the Apollo Missions as well as the first return of materials exposed to the space environment outside of low Earth orbit and beyond the Earth's magnetosphere for an extended period. We have no other comparable materials in all of our collections on Earth.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 851: Symposium NN – Materials for Space Applications , 2004 , NN10.3
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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