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... completed its prime mission collecting cometary particles and returning them to Earth in 2006. The Stardust-NExT mission met its goals which included observing surface features that changed in areas previously ... as long as the science team can gain useful information, and then Stardust will get its well-deserved rest." Stardust-NExT is a low-cost mission that is expanding the investigation of ...

... samples, as well as the most detailed, high-resolution images ever taken of a comet. Stardust was the first robotic mission created to collect material from outside the Moon's orbit ... ,” news release 2004-001, 2 January 2004; NASA JPL , “ Stardust : NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission ~ Encounter with Comet Wild 2,” http:// Stardust .jpl.nasa.gov/mission/details2.html (accessed 9 January ...

... of the galaxy. NASA expected that the 100-pound (45.36-kilogram) capsule ejected from Stardust would contain approximately 1 million samples of comet and interstellar dust particles, trapped in a ... fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the Sun.” ''Guy Gugliotta, “ Stardust Capsule Brings First Comet Sample to Earth,” Washington Post, 17 January 2006; Warren Leary, “Space ...

... the dust samples of comet Wild 2, findings that NASA’s Stardust spacecraft had returned to Earth in January 2006. Stardust had passed within 149 miles (239.79 kilometers) of Wild 2 ... , were continuing to study the sample particles to determine their chemical histories. ''NASA, “NASA’s Stardust Findings May Alter View of Comet Formation,” news release 06-091, 13 March 2006, http ...

... analyzing the samples to learn about comet formation and the history of the solar system. Stardust Principal Investigator Donald E. Brownlee, of the University of Washington in Seattle, stated that the ... in Comet,” GSFC news release, 17 August 2009, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Stardust/news/Stardust_amino_acid.html (accessed 13 September 2011); John Johnson Jr., “Ingredient for Life Detected in ...

... briefing at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 19, to discuss the Feb. 14 Stardust-NExT mission flyby of comet Tempel 1. The encounter will mark the first time scientists ... , Stardust-NExT principal investigator, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. -- Tim Larson, Stardust-NExT project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Pasadena, Calif. -- Pete Schultz, Stardust-NExT co-investigator, Brown University, Providence, R.I. -- Steve Chesley, Stardust ...

... 'S NIGHT COMET ENCOUNTER PASADENA, Calif. --'' NASA will host several live media activities for the Stardust-NExT mission's close encounter with comet Tempel 1. The closest approach is expected at ... 's associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate -Joe Veverka, Stardust-NExT principal investigator, Cornell University -Tim Larson, Stardust-NExT project manager, JPL -Don Brownlee, Stardust-NExT co-investigator, University of Washington, Seattle Midnight to ...

... been heading a program to develop leadership for JPL 's projects. Duxbury had joined the Stardust project in 1996 as Mission Manager, responsible for navigation, mission design, the ground-data system, science-data management, and mission operations. Before working on the Stardust project, Duxbury had served on planetary mission teams, including several Mariner missions, the Mars Viking ...

... bit, but I was going to ask about the Stardust mission, what kind of controls they’ve placed on the return. '''Bogard:''' The Stardust, a lot of that experience came because different ... we developed a lot of the technique and contamination control doing that kind of work. Stardust material was just more of the same if you will, although JSC did build a ... it. There’s a special little lab on the second floor of 31 just for Stardust samples, just like we use part of the old lunar facility for curating Martian meteorites ...

... bit, but I was going to ask about the Stardust mission, what kind of controls they’ve placed on the return. '''Bogard:''' The Stardust, a lot of that experience came because different ... we developed a lot of the technique and contamination control doing that kind of work. Stardust material was just more of the same if you will, although JSC did build a ... it. There’s a special little lab on the second floor of 31 just for Stardust samples, just like we use part of the old lunar facility for curating Martian meteorites ...

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