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Genesis (spacecraft)

Launched on August 8, 2001. Reached its destination in November 2001.

The mission is about collecting particles from the solar wind. They will be returned to Earth with a capsule. The capsule will be grabbed by a helicopter in midair above the Utah desert[?].

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