NASA Genesis Mission Status Report 9 September 2004

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 that 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 drogue 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 more information about
NASA on the Internet, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ .