On5, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and ...

Scientists are busy at work “sample harvesting” — extracting comet particles from aerogel-laden capture trays brought back to Earth last month via the Stardust return capsule. “The pace of sample ...

The Stardust Interstellar Sample Preliminary Examination (ISPE) Group has released one FIBed section from each of four craters from the Stardust Interstellar tray’s aluminum foils. The samples are ...

On Feb. 7, 1999, the Stardust mission launched. The first-of-its-kind sample-return mission was commissioned with flying ...

A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust samples collected in space by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft — designed and built by Lockheed Martin — landed gently under parachute early this ...

This article is republished with permission and appears in the 20 March 2006 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology. In a dramatic bid to maximize the utilization of existing, low- cost planetary ...

NASA's Stardust mission is on track to return a capsule to Earth on Jan. 15 that contains samples of comet dust and interstellar dust, the space agency said. Following a scheduled course correction ...

A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust samples collected in space by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft — designed and built by Lockheed Martin is heading to Earth for a parachute landing ...

The Stardust sample container has been shipped to Johnson Space Center. When they cracked it open to look at the samples, they got a nice surprise. “It exceeds all expectations,” said Donald Brownlee, ...

On January 15, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and interstellar dust. Two weeks earlier, Stardust visited the comet ...