DISCOVERY TO RETURN COMET DUST SAMPLES
NASA has decided the fourth in a series of Discovery missions will be a $199.6-million spacecraft program intended to fly past a comet and return dust samples to Earth in a reentry capsule. The spacecraft, known as Stardust, is scheduled to be launched on a MedLite booster in 1999 for its close...
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