Genesis To Exodus

As P.G. Wodehouse said, "What is life but a series of sharp corners, round each of which fate lies in wait for us with a stuffed eel skin?" There may be no sharp corners in space (or stuffed eel skins, come to think of it), but the logic is the same. How else to summarise the fate of the space capsule Genesis, which returned to Earth last week after a three-year, $360 million, 3.2 million-kilometre round-trip towards the sun? So far, so expensive, so long, and what happens? The parachute doesn't ...