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SPACE PROGRAM: Aiming for the Sun, Crashing to Earth
Richard A. Kerr
As the capsule carrying precious samples of the solar wind collected by the Genesis spacecraft approached its Utah landing site last week, it tumbled earthward with no sign of its stabilizing parachute.