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Paul Blake wrote:
Has there been any updates on Genesis? Did they manage to recover anything
useful or was it a total loss?

You could get it from the horse's mouth:

http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/

Latest:
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/m...s_report2.html

Genesis Team Ships First Samples

The Genesis team has shipped its first scientific sample from the
mission's specially constructed cleanroom at the U.S. Army Proving
Ground in Dugway, Utah. The sample, containing what are known as
"lid foils," was attached to the interior lid of the Genesis sample
return capsule.

"This is the first batch in what we are growing more confident will
be many more scientifically valuable samples," said Genesis Project
Manager Don Sweetnam of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif. "It appears that we have recovered about 75 to 80 percent of
these lid foils. A great deal of credit has to go to the dedicated
men and women of Genesis who continue to do very precise, detailed
work out there in the Utah desert."

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Hud Nordin Silicon Valley