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Genesis probe's recovery failed

Washington, USA - The re-entry capsule's parachute did not open and the two NASA's helicopters could not hook it up

A great expectation existed in the United States for the Genesis probe’s re-entry yesterday (see for details AVIONEWS). Three years activities in the space in order to recover just little microgrammes of solar particles, which would have been able to provide important information even regarding the origin of the universe itself, could have been lost forever after the re-entry capsule crashed on the g...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 102976
Rome, Italy, 09/09/2004 11:46
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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