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Genesis was a NASA sample return probe that collected a sample of solar wind and returned it to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample return mission to return material since the Apollo Program and the first to return material from beyond the orbit of the Moon. Genesis was launched on August 8 2001 and crash-landed in Utah on September 8 2004 after a design flaw prevented the deployment of its drogue parachute.
