Sept. 9, 2004

Gretchen Cook-Anderson 
Headquarters, Washington 
(Phone: 202/358-1547)

D.C. Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 
(Phone: 818/354-5011)RELEASE: 04-294

NASA UPDATES GENESIS MISSION STATUS

Genesis team specialists are beginning the process of conducting 
inventory of the contents of the craft's science canister.

The canister is inside a clean room at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving 
Ground, Utah. Scientists are hopeful the recovered Genesis samples 
will be sufficient to achieve the mission's science goals. The team 
is handling the canister and the sample return capsule in a 
methodical manner. When this inventory is completed, the materials 
will be transferred to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, as 
originally planned.

NASA is convening a Mishap Investigation Board to determine why the 
Genesis parachute failed to deploy.

For information about the Genesis Sample Return Mission on the 
Internet, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov/genesis 
or
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov 

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov

	
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