Space capsule carrying solar test crashes in Utah desert

Thursday, September 9, 2004

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah -- The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for three years gathering potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth and cracked open Wednesday, exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination.

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