On5, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and ...

On04, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the first robotic sample return mission of its kind. It didn't land on the ...

During the Stardust mission, NASA captured material traveling at nearly 19 times the speed of sound. The impact was so extreme it required special collection technology. The data revealed how violent ...