NASA's Genesis completes final course correction

NASA's Genesis spacecraft completed its final course correction on Sept. 6 in preparation to release its sample capsule containing solar particles into Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 8. The Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft spent two years trapping solar atoms on delicate wafers of gold, sapphire...

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