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Woo hoo! Stardust has landed!
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Jan 15, 2006, 04:09 AM
 
TOUCHDOWN! The 7-year voyage of NASA's Stardust mission to retrieve pristine samples of a comet has returned to Earth, parachuting to the ground in Utah after a 2.88 billion mile journey through the solar system.
http://spaceflightnow.com/stardust/status.html

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...all_watch.html
     
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Jan 15, 2006, 04:33 AM
 
Oooooo! Go NASA for getting your Metric to English conversions right this time!
     
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Jan 15, 2006, 05:17 AM
 
Is there any way Nasa can assure that the alien seed spores will not escape?

j/k

I think.

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Jan 15, 2006, 07:10 AM
 
Originally Posted by aberdeenwriter
Is there any way Nasa can assure that the alien seed spores will not escape?

j/k

I think.

NOT A CHANCE!!

NASA contractors will sneak samples out to sell on EBAY within a week!
     
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Jan 15, 2006, 12:48 PM
 
Congratulations to NASA on the success of the Stardust mission. Hopefully it will provide a lot of useful information for science.

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Jan 15, 2006, 01:35 PM
 
Originally Posted by Y3a
NOT A CHANCE!!

NASA contractors will sneak samples out to sell on EBAY within a week!
Well, speaking of the devil! I just had someone knock on my door and they gave me some of the comet dust. If you promise not to tell anyone I'll sell you a few specks for $500,000.

But you can't tell ANYONE!

OK?

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Jan 15, 2006, 02:09 PM
 
I'll put it next to my Moon Rock and Polar Ice chunk from Mars...
     
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Jan 15, 2006, 05:37 PM
 
Is that the one that let you submit names to be micro etched on some chips? I remember way back when submitting my whole family
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Jan 15, 2006, 05:53 PM
 
Congrats to NASA!

Very exciting indeed!!!
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