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Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis.
Landing date (Landing craft) Space station or mission type 1 ... Stardust: First sample return from comet. USA 15 January 2006 Earth: Voyager 1:
Stardust: Asteroid 5535 Annefrank: 7 February 1999 2 November 2002 1365 days (3 yr, 8 mo, 27 d) Stardust flew by Annefrank [108] Comet 81P/Wild: 21 January 2004 1810 days (4 yr, 11 mo, 15 d) Stardust flew a sample return mission by Wild. Comet 9P/Tempel: 14 February 2011 N/A Stardust flew by Tempel on an extended mission.
STS-97 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. The crew installed the first set of solar arrays to the ISS, prepared a docking port for arrival of the Destiny Laboratory Module , and delivered supplies for the station's crew.
Mission name Launch date Description Ref(s) ... First crewed lunar landing and first successful sample return mission ... Stardust: 7 February 1999 ...
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...
Peregrine mission abandons moon landing attempt after suffering ‘critical’ fuel loss. Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN. January 8, 2024 at 10:55 PM.
The Genesis Rock, returned by the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert in Utah. A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring ...