Stardust launched

The NASA Stardust comet-dust collector spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Delta II Medlite booster on 7 February. The Stardust, a NASA Discovery programme mission, will collect dust from the comet Wild 2 during a flyby in January 2004. It is scheduled to return the samples to ...

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