stardust capsule

The bits of Bennu will land in Utah (as Stardust's capsule did) in September 2023. (The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, meanwhile, will be placed into a holding orbit around the sun, allowing it to possibly perform an extended mission if NASA decides to grant and fund one, mission team members have said.) ...

The sample return capsule from NASA's Stardust mission successfully landed at the U.S. Air Force's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah, at 2:10 a.m. Pacific (3:10 a.m. Mountain) on January 15, 2006. The capsule carried cometary and …more. It was less than an hour into the new day of ...

In 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft collected samples of a comet and cosmic dust and then, two years later, returned those samples to Earth in 2006, giving scientists their first ever pieces of a comet and, just possibly, the stuff between stars. See images of the Stardust's best candidates yet for interstellar ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Having returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The capsule will go on public display in the museum's Milestones of Flight Gallery on ...

When the Stardust capsule blazed its way through Earth's atmosphere to a parachute landing in Utah earlier this month, the event was a preview of extraterrestrial attractions to come. Scientists are elated at the Stardust collectibles--pristine specimens of interstellar dust and comet particles from deep space.

The 101-pound (46-kilogram) Stardust capsule parachuted to Earth in the pre-dawn hours January 15 at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). After the capsule's recovery, a canister holding the interstellar and comet samples was removed in Utah for transportation to JSC. Stardust was launched on it ...

The 101-pound (46-kilogram) Stardust capsule returned to Earth, slamming into the atmosphere at a blistering 29,000 miles per hour - the greatest velocity ever attained by any human-made object diving into Earth's atmosphere on record. The sample return capsule landed in the pre-dawn hours January ...

A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust has landed on Earth after a seven-year space mission. The Stardust probe released the capsule as it flew back to Earth after a 4.6-billion-km (2.8-billion-mile) trip. The US-built capsule plunged through the atmosphere and touched down in the Utah ...

Stardust Capsule Return as seen from NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory with a mission to explore the conditions during reentry from the light emitted by the fireball caused when the capsule streaked through the sky. The aircraft was located near the end of the trajectory, just outside of Utah landing site.

Stardust's Sampe Return Capsule streaks across the predawn skies as it reenters the Earth's atmosphere. This image was taken by observers from NASA's DC-8 Airborne Laboratory with a mission to explore the conditions during reentry from the light emitted by the fireball caused when the capsule ...

The Stardust spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, aboard a Delta II rocket. The probe collected dust and carbon-based samples during its encounter with Comet Wild 2 on January 2004, after nearly four years of space travel. Stardust is bringing back ...

More samples of comets are urgently required to better understand the early history of the Solar System, say researchers analyzing comet dust brought back to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission in 2006. Artist's concept of the Stardust spacecraft flying by Comet 81P/Wild. Image credit: NASA/JPL. The dust ...