[meteorite-list] NASA's Comet Tale Draws to a Successful CloseinUtah Desert

From: Meteoriteshow <meteoriteshow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jan 15 14:43:24 2006
Message-ID: <004401c61a0b$eb5cae80$0400a8c0_at_IBM>

I also congratulate all the staff involved in this successful & fantastic mission. It was exciting from the beginning and we are now
anxious to know what those stardusts will show!!!
Cheers,

Fred

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From: "Dave Carothers" <davecarothers_at_erols.com>
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> Congratulations to all of Team Stardust at NASA for the successful
> completion of the Stardust mission. A great accomplishment.
>
> Dave
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> > NASA's Comet Tale Draws to a Successful Close in Utah Desert
> > January 15, 2006
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> > NASA's Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth
> > when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles
> > successfully touched down at 2:10 a.m. Pacific time (3:10 a.m.
> > Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force
> > Utah Test and Training Range.
> >
> > "Ten years of planning and seven years of flight operations
> > were realized early this morning when we successfully picked
> > up our return capsule off of the desert floor in Utah," said
> > Tom Duxbury, Stardust project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion
> > Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "The Stardust project has delivered
> > to the international science community material that has been
> > unaltered since the formation of our solar system."
> >
> > Stardust released its sample return capsule at 9:57 p.m. Pacific
> > time (10:57 p.m. Mountain time) last night. The capsule entered
> > the atmosphere four hours later at 1:57 a.m. Pacific time (2:57
> > a.m. Mountain time). The drogue and main parachutes deployed
> > at 2:00 and 2:05 a.m. Pacific time, respectively (3:00 and 3:05
> > a.m. Mountain time).
> >
> > "I have been waiting for this day since the early 1980s when
> > Deputy Principal Investigator Dr. Peter Tsou of JPL and I designed
> > a mission to collect comet dust," said Dr. Don Brownlee, Stardust
> > principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle.
> > "To see the capsule safely back on its home planet is a thrilling
> > accomplishment."
> >
> > The sample return capsule's science canister and its cargo of
> > comet and interstellar dust particles will be stowed inside
> > a special aluminum carrying case to await transfer to the Johnson
> > Space Center, Houston, where it will be opened. NASA's Stardust
> > mission traveled 2.88 billion miles during its seven-year round-trip
> > odyssey. Scientists believe these precious samples will help
> > provide answers to fundamental questions about comets and the
> > origins of the solar system.
> >
> > NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages
> > the Stardust mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
> > Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, developed
> > and operated the spacecraft.
> >
> > For information about the Stardust mission on the Web, visit
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