This spacecraft is a comet explorer. It has the tools to do a lot more.
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It is a competitive world and NASA has a lot of thinks on its plate. It will be interesting to see if it Stardust spacecraft does have a life.Tom Duxbury
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.
Tom Duxbury
The science that's going to come out of this, that's going to tell us about the early formation of our solar system, the role that comets have played in the formation of Earth and ourselves, that will unfold over the next few years. The science that this project is returning will be unprecedented.
Tom Duxbury
That's a culmination of over ten years worth of work. To see (the capsule) in one piece on the floor of the desert is just very moving.
Tom Duxbury
We took a spacecraft and flew it five years. But in these five years, we went back to the origin of time - to the origin of our solar system.
Tom Duxbury
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