Stardust Ready for 7-Year Trek To Collect, Return Comet Particles

NASA's Stardust spacecraft is ready to begin a 7-year journey during which it will rendezvous with Comet Wild-2, collect particles from the debris cloud surrounding the nucleus and return the samples to Earth in 2006. Launch opportunities for Stardust at Cape Canaveral are scheduled to start on Feb...

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