NASA Stardust Spacecraft
The last mission to return samples from a terrestrial body was the Soviet Luna 24 unmanned Moon lander in 1976. The comet dust being returned by the NASA Stardust spacecraft is the first U.S. sample return since Apollo 17 (AW&ST Jan. 12, p. 29).
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