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	Genesis (spacecraft) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Genesis spacecraft was the first ever attempt to collect a sample of solar wind, and the first sample return mission to return from beyond the orbit of the Moon.
		Genesis was a Discovery-class mission of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
		Genesis followed a complicated Interplanetary Transport Network trajectory to a chaotic Lissajous halo orbit at the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft) (1331 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Delta Launch Report \| The Genesis spacecraft
		Genesis' structure is similar to that used in the construction of high-performance and fighter aircraft.
		Genesis' telecommunications subsystem is composed of both a radio system operating in the S-band microwave frequency range and, in the return capsule, a system that operates in the UHF range.
		The spacecraft uses both the directions of the Sun and of stars as measured by the Sun sensors and star tracker, respectively, to determine its orientation in space.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /delta/d287/010728genesis.html (2577 words)

	Space Today Online - Genesis returns to Earth after studying the Sun in deep space
		Genesis was launched August 8, 2001, to capture samples from the storehouse of 99 percent of all the material in our Solar System – the Sun.
		Genesis flew past Earth on May 2, 2004, in a loop that put it on track for home – and the planned mid-air recovery that did not occur over the state of Utah in September 2004.
		Genesis was conceived in the early 1980s and finally selected in 1997 from among 35 other Discovery mission proposals that year.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Sun/Genesis.html (2007 words)

	Earth Change News on Earth Changes TV on the Web
		NASA's Genesis spacecraft, the first mission to collect and return samples of the solar wind, is moving closer to launch.
		The Genesis metallic glass was prepared in a collaborative effort by Hays and George Wolter of the Howmet Corporation, Greenwich, Conn., using the same process the company uses for the high-tech Vitreloy-based golf clubs.
		Genesis is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, in Washington, DC.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/October2000/1013spacewind.htm (905 words)

	Genesis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible.
		Genesis (band), an English progressive rock group, and Genesis (album), an album by the same band
		GENESiS, "Genetic-Environmental Nature of Emotional States in Siblings", a large scale genetic study conducted by the University of London
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genesis_(disambiguation) (269 words)

	Genesis - Summary
		The Genesis spacecraft will be placed into orbit around L1, a point between Earth and the sun where the gravity of both bodies is balanced.
		The spacecraft is also equipped with ion and electron electrostatic monitors to determine which solar wind regime is being encountered and to help set the appropriate collector voltage.
		Genesis is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, Colo. Genesis is part of NASA's Discovery Program of competitively selected, low-cost solar system exploration missions with highly focused science goals.
	www.spaceandtech.com /spacedata/logs/2001/2001-034_genesis_sumpub.shtml (865 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: National Environmental Policy Act; Genesis Mission
		NASA is proposing to launch the Genesis mission, which would deliver a single spacecraft into a halo orbit about the L1 point, approximately 1.5 million kilometers (km) [0.93 million miles (mi)] away from the Earth (approximately 1 percent of the Earth-Sun distance).
		The goal of Genesis is to improve the accuracy in the measure of each element's abundance by at least a factor of three.
		The Genesis mission has been categorized by the NASA Planetary Protection Officer as a Planetary Protection Category V mission, ``Unrestricted Earth Return'', because there is essentially zero chance of extraterrestrial biological contamination during sample collection at the L1 point, and thus an insignificant chance of back contamination by returning a novel organism to Earth.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2001/April/Day-24/i10070.htm (2462 words)

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		Genesis is orbiting a Lagrange point, designated L1, about 1.5 million kilometers (just under 1 million miles) away from Earth toward the Sun, where gravitational and centrifugal forces acting on the spacecraft are balanced.
		The L1 point is a convenient place to position spacecraft because it allows an uninterrupted view of the Sun, is outside the Earth's magnetosphere and requires few spacecraft maneuvers to stay in orbit.
		Genesis is collecting samples of the solar wind, invisible charged particles that flow outward from the Sun.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /news/space/2002/05-23a.txt (356 words)

	SignOnSanDiego Science News -- NASA launches Genesis spacecraft on mission to gather particles of the sun
		A concern arose late in the countdown over parts in Genesis that are common to the Mars Odyssey spacecraft en route to the red planet.
		Genesis will spend the next three months traveling to an imaginary point 1 million miles from Earth and 92 million miles from the sun.
		Genesis was supposed to lift off July 30, but was grounded after a pair of power converters in the spacecraft became suspect.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20010808-0954-nasassuncat.html (560 words)

	Extraterrestrial Sample Return :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		Genesis was placed into orbit around the first Lagrangian point (L1), a place between Earth and the Sun where the gravity of both bodies is balanced.
		Genesis is expected to capture 10-20 micrograms (where 1 microgram is a millionth of a gram) of the solar wind, equivalent to the mass of a few grains of salt.
		NASA's Genesis mission was launched in August 2001 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Three months and about one million miles later, the spacecraft began to amass solar wind particles on hexagonal wafer-shaped collectors made of pure silicon, gold, sapphire and diamond.
	www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=910 (768 words)

	JPL.NASA.GOV: Feature Stories
		"The materials we used in the Genesis collector arrays had to be physically strong enough to be launched without breaking; retain the sample while being heated by the Sun during collection; and be pure enough that we could analyze the solar wind elements after Earth-return," Jurewicz said.
		Since the solar wind was implanted near the surface of each wafer, the ability to differentiate the implanted solar wind from impurities within the wafer itself, as well as surface contamination from handling and terrestrial transport, was an important science issue.
		Genesis completed the science-collection phase of the mission in April 2004, securing the collector wafers and their precious cargo in its sample return capsule for the five-month trip back to Earth.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /news/features.cfm?feature=635 (783 words)

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		Genesis will become the first mission ever to return a sample of extraterrestrial material from beyond the Moon when it catches a piece of the Sun to return to Earth.
		The Genesis team reported that the spacecraft was in excellent health and that its power and temperature levels are normal.
		The spacecraft's signal was successfully acquired by the NASA Deep Space Network complex at Goldstone, Calif., 85 minutes after launch at 1:38 p.m.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /sso/news/press_release/08-08-01.txt (351 words)

	Rocky Mountain PBS: New Frontier
		The spacecraft is approximately the size of a dining room table and fits snugly inside the nosecone of the rocket.
		In appearance, the spacecraft is essentially a group of robotic structures and mechanisms built on either side of a strong, almost-square deck.
		The Genesis spacecraft and sample return capsule are designed to fulfill the science objectives of the mission.
	www.rmpbs.org /learn/frontier/explore/genesis/fact.html (552 words)

	The First Sun Sample Return Mission
		The science payload for NASA's Genesis spacecraft, which will collect samples of the solar wind and return them to Earth, is now complete.
		October 12, 2000 -- NASA's Genesis spacecraft, the first mission to collect and return samples of the solar wind, is moving closer to launch.
		To bathe in the solar wind, the spacecraft only needs to fly about 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) toward the Sun (about 1 percent of the Sun-Earth distance).
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2000/ast12oct_1.htm (935 words)

	Genesis : Search for Origins \| JPL \| NASA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Genesis samples are being analyzed with a host of new technologies and instrumentation in laboratories all over the world.
		Genesis samples are the first extraterrestrial samples returned to Earth by NASA since the Apollo program, which ended in the early 1970s.
		Spacecraft collectors, vital to the mission's top science objective, in excellent shape.
	www.genesismission.org (231 words)

	NASA Genesis Spacecraft on Final Lap Toward Home
		The Genesis mission was launched in August of 2001 to capture samples from the storehouse of 99-percent of all the material in our solar system - the Sun.
		At that time, the spacecraft was traveling at a speed relative to Earth of 1.26 kilometers per second (2,800 miles per hour).
		The flight crews for the two helicopters assigned for Genesis capture and return are comprised of former military aviators and Hollywood stunt pilots.
	www.physlink.com /news/050904Genesis.cfm (379 words)

	North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Nevada
		Genesis is returning particles from the solar wind, the "exhaled breath" of the Sun.
		Genesis has five super-pure panels made out of aluminum, gold, silicon, synthetic diamond and other materials, selected to collect the particles from the solar wind.
		Genesis was launched on Aug. 8, 2001, and sent on a boomarang-shaped path a million miles away from the Earth.
	www.tahoebonanza.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040905/Nevada/109050021 (964 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Genesis makes a crash-landing
		DUGWAY PROVING GROUND — The Genesis spacecraft crashed into Dugway's mud flats Wednesday, and as crews began digging to retrieve it, initial suspicions focused on the battery, sensor and other gear that were supposed to release a drogue parachute.
		Despite catastrophic failure of the Genesis re-entry equipment, scientists remained hopeful that some data from the $264 million project might be salvaged.
		Upon Genesis' re-entry into the atmosphere, the drogue parachute was intended to slow the capsule from nearly 25,000 miles per hour; then the drogue would detach and a larger parafoil would allow it to glide slowly toward the desert of Dugway Proving Ground.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595090046,00.html (1278 words)

	SPACE.com --
		Genesis' sample return capsule is the first spacecraft to deliver space samples to Earth for NASA since Apollo 17 mission unloaded its last Moon rock in 1972.
		Genesis launched in 2001 and spent most of its time at a gravitationally stable Lagrange point between the Earth and Sun with its collectors facing the Sun.
		NASA’s Genesis spacecraft performed a critical trajectory maneuver Sept. 6, putting it on a precise course for plunging into Earth’s atmosphere and fireballing its way toward the Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), southwest of Salt Lake City.
	www.space.com /news/genesis_archive_0409.html (930 words)

	ScienceDaily: What Genesis Solar Particles Can Tell Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NASA Genesis Spacecraft On Final Lap Toward Home (May 6, 2004) -- NASA's Genesis spacecraft flew past Earth on Saturday in a loop that puts it on track for home - and a dramatic mid-air recovery Sept. 8.
		Genesis Set To Catch A Piece Of The Sun (July 13, 2001) -- NASA'S next robotic space explorer is ready to do a little sunbathing on a mission to catch a wisp of raw material from the luminous celestial body around which the Earth and other planets...
		Genesis Scientists Bouncing Back From Hard Landing (September 13, 2004) -- Scientists who conducted the preliminary assessment of the Genesis canister are encouraged by what they see.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/09/040923093551.htm (1523 words)

	KSC Release No. 63-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NASA's Genesis spacecraft, to be launched aboard a Boeing Delta II vehicle on July 30, arrived at 3:30 a.m.
		Genesis will capture a piece of the Sun: a sample of the ions and elements in the solar wind and bring the samples back to Earth so that scientists can study the exact composition of the Sun and probe the solar system's origin.
		Now that the Genesis spacecraft is at KSC, processing will begin with a functional test, an electrical systems test of the entire spacecraft and the solar arrays will be deployed.
	www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov /kscpao/release/2001/63-01.htm (504 words)

	Genesis set to return to Earth - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - September 07, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Genesis spacecraft is returning home tomorrow after a whirlwind tour a million miles from Earth.
		The path was chosen to put Genesis outside the Earth's immediate neighborhood in a gravitationally stable place where the spacecraft could be "parked" for a couple of years.
		If the pilots miss and the spacecraft hits the ground, it should survive, although there may be some damage to the samples.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20040906-112926-9644r.htm (502 words)

	Boston.com / News / Science / NASA's Genesis spacecraft adjusts course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NASA's Genesis spacecraft successfully adjusted its course this week as it heads back toward Earth with a sample of solar wind particles, the space agency said Wednesday.
		PASADENA, Calif. --NASA's Genesis spacecraft successfully adjusted its course this week as it heads back toward Earth with a sample of solar wind particles, the space agency said Wednesday.
		Genesis was launched in August 2001, carrying special collectors to capture particles of the solar wind to help scientists understand the composition of the sun and the origins of the solar system.
	www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2004/08/12/nasas_genesis_spacecraft_adjusts_course?mode=PF (186 words)

	Genesis Lost Through Mismanagement?
		The Genesis vehicle, long awaited by scientists all around the world to examine it's collected material, hit the ground so hard it was embedded in the desert floor like a squashed cockroach.
		Genesis is contaminated with dust and numerous earth organic materials when it was smashed wide open like an egg dropped on the floor.
		In the case of Genesis, Lockheed of Bethesda, MD performed the work on this contract and is therefore the vendor.
	www.rense.com /general58/egensis.htm (4124 words)

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