{"id":6472,"date":"2026-08-08T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:49:39","slug":"genesis-was-launched-in-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6472","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Was Launched in 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10566\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10566\" class=\"wp-image-10566 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Genesis-150x150.png\" alt=\"Genesis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genesis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Genesis<\/i> was launched in 2001<\/strong>. The space vehicle traveled to the sun and gathered particles of the sun on its way. A capsule then turned around and returned to earth. It crash landed (the drogue parachute failed to deploy) in Utah on September 8, 2004. Some of the samples were contaminated by earth soil on impact, but many collectors were intact. Scientists used the data to learn more about the sun\u2019s composition and history. Children could learn more by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genesis Spacecraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis was launched in 2001. The space vehicle traveled to the sun and gathered particles of the sun on its way. A capsule then turned around and returned to earth. It crash landed (the drogue parachute failed to deploy) in Utah on September 8, 2004. Some of the samples were contaminated by earth soil on <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6472' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4518,5774,1056,1057,1058,1059],"class_list":["post-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4518","tag-august-8","tag-genesis","tag-genesis-spacecraft","tag-sun","tag-suns-composition","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29614,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}