KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Workers attend the arrival of NASA's Genesis spacecraft at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in KSC's industrial area where it will undergo final preparations;for launch.; The spacecraft was flown into the Shuttle Landing Facility aboard an Air Force C-17 aircraft from Denver, Colo., where it was built for NASA by Lockheed Martin Astronautics.; Genesis is designed to capture samples of the ions and elements in the solar wind and return them to Earth for scientists to use to determine the exact composition of the Sun and the solar system's origin. Launch abo
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Workers attend the arrival of NASA's Genesis spacecraft at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in KSC's industrial area where it will undergo final preparations;for launch.; The spacecraft was flown into the Shuttle Landing Facility aboard an Air Force C-17 aircraft from Denver, Colo., where it was built for NASA by Lockheed Martin Astronautics.; Genesis is designed to capture samples of the ions and elements in the solar wind and return them to Earth for scientists to use to determine the exact composition of the Sun and the solar system's origin. Launch aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket is scheduled for July 30 at 12 36 EDT.; NASA's Genesis project in managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif
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