Richard wrote:

The prospects for success look good according to NASA's retrieval
partner in the mission, the aerospace firm Vertigo.

"If they can find it, the success rate is very high," said Vertigo
official Roy Haggard.

A modified helicopter -- with a winch, hydraulic capture pole and
hundreds of feet of line -- will follow the capsule by radar until it
moves in and snags the parafoil. Because the Genesis capsule must
repressurize in the upper atmosphere, scientists want to minimize the
sample's exposure to air and possible contamination.

Once it is secured at a NASA facility, scientists can breathe easier,
said Burnett.

"After that we can take our time, and we will see what we have," he
said.

NASA recruited some helicopter stunt pilots for the retrieval mission.
They usually work for the movie industry.


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