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NASA Probes Crash of Genesis Spacecraft

NPR | By Howard Berkes

Published September 9, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NASA assembles a review board to investigate why parachutes failed to deploy on the Genesis space capsule, causing it to crash into the Utah desert. Scientists hope to salvage some of Genesis' cargo of cosmic particles. Hear NPR's Howard Berkes.

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