The return capsule will land by parachute to allow experiments carried into orbit to be recovered for analysis.

On 30 January 2007, Jaxa reported that 7 out of 11 batteries are working and the return capsule was sealed.

If all goes according to plan, Genesis will guide itself into the atmosphere on Sept. 8, 2004, and release the return capsule.

Four hours after release, the three-foot-wide return capsule is to enter the Earth's atmosphere at 410,000 feet above the Pacific.

In the latter case they would have been recorded on magnetic tape, to be retrieved after the return capsule landed.

This package of hardy micro-organisms will make the journeys out and back inside a separate compartment in the return capsule.

The return capsule is on display at the Energia Museum, in Russia.

The return capsule is on display at Orevo, Russia.

If they did have a return capsule, they could probably fund part of the mission by selling off pieces after they are done analyzing it.

What is involved in planning the entry speed and chute deployment to slow the landing of the return capsule?