Midair recovery of solar samples scheduled for Sept. 8

NASA's Genesis mission is scheduled to culminate Sept. 8 when helicopter crews in the skies over Utah will attempt to catch in midair a sample capsule released by the spacecraft. Launched in August 2001, the Lockheed Martin-built Genesis spacecraft spent two years orbiting a libration point between...

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