Stardust Flight Opens New Exploration Era
The NASA Stardust spacecraft is outbound from Earth on the first leg of a 3.2-billion-mi., 7-year round trip to return samples of material spraying from the surface of a comet. Stardust is the first of four major U.S. and European missions planned for launch over the next 4 years to six comets...
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