Spacecraft to Bring Back Bits of Sun

krugdm writes: "NASA will be sending up a robotic spacecraft named "Genesis" which will bring back specks of solar wind in order to study what the solar system may have been like when it was first forming." According to the article, this will be the "first U.S. spacecraft since the Apollo moon ships to return samples from outer space," and the planned recovery involves a Hollywood-sounding helicopter catch of the reentry pod.