Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | The Stardust Mission: Bringing Comet Wild-2 Samples Home to Earth (Exploring Space Lecture) @airandspace | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft launched in 1999 on a Discovery class mission to collect dust samples from the coma of the comet Wild-2 and samples of interstellar dust passing through our solar system, and return them to Earth for analysis.
In this lecture, Scott Sandford from NASA Ames Research Center will discuss what we learned from analyzing these samples.
Sponsored by Aerojet Rocketdyne: An L3Harris Technologies Company and United Launch Alliance
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft launched in 1999 on a Discovery class mission to collect dust samples from the coma of the comet Wild-2 and samples of interstellar dust passing through our solar system, and return them to Earth for analysis.
In this lecture, Scott Sandford from NASA Ames Research Center will discuss what we learned from analyzing these samples.
Sponsored by Aerojet Rocketdyne: An L3Harris Technologies Company and United Launch Alliance
