Hollywood stunt pilots had rehearsed the routine for more than a month: Snare the small Genesis space capsule and its precious samples of solar material as the vessel parachuted to Earth. But the final scene didn’t follow the script.
Genesis was launched in August 2001 to capture and return samples of the sun’s wind of charged particles.
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