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March 23, 2011
NASA's Stardust: Good to the Last Drop
On Thursday, March 24 at about 4 p.m. PDT (7 p.m. EDT), NASA's Stardust spacecraft will perform a final burn with its main engines.
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February 15, 2011
NASA Releases Images of Man-Made Crater on Comet
NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission.
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February 14, 2011
NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby
Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An hour after closest approach, the spacecraft turned to point its large, high-gain antenna at Earth.
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Mission History

+ Reusing the Stardust Spacecraft to Survey Tempel 1
+ Stardust-NExT Mission Brief (PDF 136 Kb)
+ Behind the Original Stardust Mission
+ What Did Deep Impact See?
+ Stardust Flies By Earth
+ Original Stardust Mission Website
                        + Deep Impact Legacy Site
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Mission and Science Objectives

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Spacecraft Details

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