Genesis Space Capsule Crashes in Utah Desert
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PASADENA, Calif.  - A space capsule returning  solar particles to Earth crashed in the Utah desert on  Wednesday after its parachute failed to open, but scientists  were hoping that the star dust inside might have been saved.
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SALT LAKE CITY - NASA scientists said Friday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule that crashed this week and were hopeful that the mission to gather solar atoms could be salvaged.   "We should be able to meet many, if not all, of our science goals," said physicist Roger C...
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A space capsule containing NASA&#39;s first sample from space in more than 30 years crashed into the Utah desert today after its parachutes failed to open.
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NASA says the space capsule, built by Lockheed Martin, went down in the Utah desert because a crucial switch was put on backward. By John Johnson.
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SALT LAKE CITY - NASA scientists said Friday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule, which crashed this week in the Utah desert.    The recovery offered some hope that the mission to gather solar atoms and reveal clues to the origin of our solar system could be salvaged...
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The Genesis space capsule and its precious cargo -- billions of particles from the sun -- crashed into the Utah desert Wednesday in a last-minute bungling of a near-flawless, three-year scientific odyssey.
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NASA's $264 million Genesis mission came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday morning, when a capsule returning with samples of the Sun slammed into the desert.
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NASA says a poorly designed parachute is the likely reason its space probe, Genesis, came crashing back to earth last week, losing much of its cargo of solar dust.
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The solar particles are sealed inside the Genesis sample return capsule, a disk about the size of a truck tire, that will drift toward Earth&#39;s surface beneath a parachute.
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The Genesis space capsule carrying solar wind particles will be plucked from nearly a mile above the Utah desert by stunt helicopter pilots whoâve replicated the retrieval, without fumbles, in nearly a dozen practice runs.
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A rocket that was the first launched from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico &#151; and the first to crash &#151; has been found in the desert, company officials said Saturday.
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Faulty switches are identified as the most likely cause of the Genesis sample-return capsule's crash landing last month.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - A space capsule returning  solar particles to Earth after a three-year mission that probed  the origins of the solar system crashed in the Utah desert  before it could be captured in a mid-air recovery, officials at  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.
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Scientists and engineers are optimistic after having peeked inside the Genesis space capsule, which brought back bits of the Sun but crashed into the Utah desert Wednesday.
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The agency is trying to figure out how an embarrassing error eluded the review process, apparently resulting in the crash of the Genesis space capsule in Utah last month.
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Scientists believe a faulty battery may have led to the high-speed crash to Earth of Nasa's Genesis space capsule.
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SALT LAKE CITY - In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert tomorrow, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds &#39;a piece of the sun&#39; and bring it safely down.