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    the Small Spacecraft Technologies Initiative (SSTI). The spacecraft featured five scientific instruments to collect data, including the Stardust Sample Collection...
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  • Hoagy Carmichael “Stardust” (David Essex song), 1974 “Stardust” (Lena Meyer-Landrut song), 2012 “Stardust” (Mika song), 2012 'Stardust' (composition), by...
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    spacecraft as giant Langmuir probes to directly sample the cosmic dust. Presently dust detectors are flying on the Ulysses, Proba, Rosetta, Stardust,...
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    crater was still not known one year after the impact. The 2007 Stardust spacecraft's NExT mission determined the crater's diameter to be 150 meters (490 ft)...
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    of the flats used for the land-speed racing courses. In 2004, the Stardust spacecraft released its sample-return capsule for a landing in the Bonneville...
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    Whipple shield (category Spacecraft components)
    the one used on the Stardust spacecraft, use multiple bumpers spaced apart to increase the shield's ability to protect the spacecraft. Whipple shields that...
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    density of glass. An aerogel was used in the Stardust spacecraft because the dust particles the spacecraft was to collect would have an impact speed of...
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    together with the EPOXI extension. It was a new mission for the Stardust spacecraft to fly by comet Tempel 1 in 2011 and observe changes since the Deep...
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    Tempel 1 (category Comets visited by spacecraft)
    high-speed impact upon the comet in 2005. It was re-visited by the Stardust spacecraft on February 14, 2011, and came back to perihelion in August 2016...
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    separated by a space and a thicker (12 mm) Kevlar sheet. The later Stardust spacecraft would use a similar Whipple shield. Giotto also had a 1.51 m diameter...
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    orbit of Jupiter (5.25 AU); previously the furthest use was the Stardust spacecraft at 2 AU. Solar power for propulsion was also used on the European...
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  • Discovery 4, a second-generation Discovery SUV car model by Land Rover. Stardust (spacecraft), the fourth mission of the Discovery program. This disambiguation...
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    Impact (spacecraft) Giotto (spacecraft) Halley Armada Hayabusa — successful sample-return mission to an asteroid List of missions to Mars Stardust (spacecraft)...
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    81P/Wild (category Comets visited by spacecraft)
    (37 lb/cu ft) Mass: 2.3 x 1013 kg (5.1 x 1013 lb) NASA's Stardust Mission launched a spacecraft, named Stardust, on February 7, 1999. It flew by Wild 2 on January...
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    budgetary constraints. Deep Impact (spacecraft) (Comet impactor mission) Stardust (spacecraft) (Comet coma sample-return) Weissman, P.R.; Smythe, W.D.; Muirhead...
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    the analysis of samples that had been taken in 2004 by the NASA spacecraft Stardust from comet Wild 2 and subsequently returned to Earth. Glycine had...
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    under the presence of chaotropes. Silica aerogel was used in the Stardust spacecraft to collect extraterrestrial particles. Pure silica (silicon dioxide)...
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    V-for-victory signs upon the 2006 arrival of material gathered by the Stardust spacecraft at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. The finger – another insulting...
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    presence of olivine was verified in samples of a comet from the Stardust spacecraft in 2006. Comet-like (magnesium-rich) olivine has also been detected...
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    February to May 2000 and from August to December 2002, the Stardust spacecraft exposed its "Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector" (SIDC), a set of aerogel...
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    dust. NASA used an aerogel to trap space dust particles aboard the Stardust spacecraft. These aerogel dust collectors have very low mass. The particles...
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  • line 50. In 1999, his name was among nearly a million sent aboard the Stardust spacecraft. The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story, page 117...
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    Strong was included in a list of names that traveled aboard NASA's Stardust spacecraft which visited the comet Wild 2 in 2004. An observation car on the...
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  • find interstellar dust samples by inspecting 3D images from the Stardust spacecraft. Student of Fortune is an online service that allows students to...
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  • Super Stardust HD is a downloadable multidirectional shooter released for the PlayStation 3 by Sony Interactive Entertainment, developed by the Finnish...
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  • created launched into space, such a dust flux monitor aboard the Stardust spacecraft. Simpson spent his career as an instructor and researcher for the...
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    part of the Voyager program and like its sister craft Voyager 2, the spacecraft's extended mission is to locate and study the regions and boundaries of...
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    the Genesis spacecraft Comet particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft Interstellar dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft 52 kilograms...
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    The same general parachute concept was also used on the Stardust cometary sample return spacecraft, which landed successfully in 2006. NASA investigation...
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    anything from minor component degradation to the complete destruction of a spacecraft or missile. The impactor, as well as the surface it hits, can undergo...
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