07/16/2001) --- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers check the mating of the Genesis spacecraft with the upper stage of the Delta rocket. Genesis is feet ( meters) long and feet (2 meters) wide, with a wingspan of solar array 26 feet ( meters) tip to tip. Genesis will be on a robotic NASA space mission to catch a wisp of the raw material of the Sun and return it to Earth with a spectacular mid-air helicopter capture. The sample return capsule is feet in diameter. Genesis mounted on Delta motor KSC-01pp1299

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