Genesis Stories

NASA's Genesis mission is officially open for business today, as it extends its special collector arrays to catch atoms from the solar wind.

NASA's Genesis spacecraft will begin its primary science mission of collecting particles from the solar wind when it begins to orbit a point between the Sun and Earth on Friday, Nov. 16.

NASA's Genesis spacecraft launched flawlessly atop a Delta 7326 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Station at 12:13:40 p.m. EDT (9:13:40 a.m. PDT) today.