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Stardust Mission Status Report
01.30.06 - NASA's Stardust spacecraft was placed into hibernation mode yesterday.
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NASA Postpones Stardust Mission Media Update
01.23.06 - NASA has postponed the Stardust comet mission media briefing scheduled for 1 p.m. EST (12 p.m. CST), Tuesday.
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NASA Announces Stardust Mission Media Update
01.20.06 - The next Stardust comet mission media briefing is at 1 p.m. EST (noon, CST), Tuesday, Jan 24 in room 135, Building 2, Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston.
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Scientists Confirm Comet Samples, Briefing Set Thursday
01.18.06 - Scientists have confirmed that samples from a comet and interstellar dust have been returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft.
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Stardust Sample Canister Arrives in Houston
01.17.06 - The Stardust spacecraft's Sample Return Canister has arrived at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston.
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NASA's Comet Tale Draws to a Successful Close in Utah Desert
01.15.06 - NASA's Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down at 2:10 a.m. Pacific time (3:10 a.m. Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
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NASA's Stardust Passes Moon, Just Hours Away From Earth Return
01.14.06 - Less than one day of space travel separates Earth and history's first comet sample return mission.
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NASA's Comet Hunter on Final Approach for Sunday Landing
01.12.06 - NASA's Stardust mission return capsule will land Sunday, Jan. 15, on the Utah Test and Training Range.
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Stardust Mission Status Report
01.05.06 - Ten days before its historic return to Earth with the first-ever samples from a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully performed its 18th flight path adjustment.
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NASA Prepares for Return of Interstellar Cargo
12.21.05 - NASA's Stardust mission is nearing Earth after a 4.63 billion kilometer (2.88 billion mile) round-trip journey to return cometary and interstellar dust particles back to Earth.
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Anatomy Of A Comet
06.17.04 - Findings from a historic encounter between NASA's Stardust spacecraft and a comet have revealed a much stranger world than previously believed.
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The Calm After the Cometary Storm
01.06.04 - Having weathered its out-of-this-world sandblasting by cometary particles hurtling toward it at about six times the speed of a rifle bullet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft begins its two-year, 1.14 billion kilometer (708 million mile) trek back to its planet of origin.
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NASA Spacecraft Makes Great Catch...Heads for Touchdown
01.02.04 - Team Stardust, NASA's first dedicated sample return mission to a comet, passed a huge milestone today by successfully navigating through the particle and gas-laden coma around comet Wild 2 (pronounced "Vilt-2").