Stardust Readied for Comet Intercept

The U.S. and Europe are poised to go "barnstorming the solar system" in 2004 with the most diverse set of planetary operations ever in a single year. The NASA Stardust spacecraft will inaugurate the action Jan. 2 by diving through the head of the comet Wild 2 for imagery of the nucleus and the...

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