Donald Burnett23 October 1997
Leads the Genesis proposal selected by NASA to collect solar-wind atoms in space and return the material to Earth for precise laboratory analysis.
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Leads the Genesis proposal selected by NASA to collect solar-wind atoms in space and return the material to Earth for precise laboratory analysis.
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