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NASA's Stardust: A Spacecraft's Strategic Victory
NASA’s Stardust mission wasn’t originally built to question the origins of life, but its results may reshape that ...
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NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after spacecraft release
The Stardust spacecraft successfully delivered comet dust in 2006. NASA's plans to return samples from Mars are on hold after an independent review board criticized the cost and complexity.
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Remembering Stardust, the craft that traveled billions of miles and returned with extraterrestrial cargo
A letter from Paul Wild to NASA. The original caption reads: “This letter will be placed on the microchip that will be carried on the STARDUST spacecraft to Comet Wild-2.” Credit: NASA.
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NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
The Stardust spacecraft successfully delivered comet dust in 2006. NASA’s plans to return samples from Mars are on hold after an independent review board criticized the cost and complexity.
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NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
The Stardust spacecraft successfully delivered comet dust in 2006. NASA’s plans to return samples from Mars are on hold after an independent review board criticized the cost and complexity.