Space sadness

I'm sad that the Genesis capsule crashed down. This page has some pictures of how it looks now, sticking out of some desert sand. And here's a page about the data Genesis was collecting, and an artist's conception of what the spacecraft looked like in action. When I first read about this mission, I was excited about NASA bringing stardust back to earth. When I heard about the crash, I felt like all that potential magic had crumbled. But maybe the stardust broke free when Genesis crashed in the desert... And maybe even now as I type this, little bits of magic, sparkly stardust are starting to drift around the entire planet, granting wishes for regular people like us. It's sad that the scientists won't get to study the dust, but maybe stardust shouldn't be trapped in a lab anyway.