The Genesis spacecraft entered the Utah Test and Training Range right on target on September 8, 2004. Unfortunately, the parachute did not deploy and the capsule impacted the soft lakebed mud at 200 mph, destroying half of the outer capsule - but the interior canister of collectors, though badly deformed and cracked open, contained most of the collectors in a relatively clean condition, sandwiched between the array frames. The field team had prepared in advance with tools needed to recover broken collectors from the desert floor and was ready to go immediately after impact. Within 8 hours the canister of salvaged collectors was placed inside a cleanroom at UTTR. Inside that cleanroom, the careful disassembly of the deformed canister, extraction of the collectors pieces, and preparation of samples for transport to Houston was done. After one month of hard work more than 10,000 collector pieces had been photographed, described and packaged. The collection was flown to Johnson Space Center in Houston October 4, 2004.