Stardust is the space mission that will fly close to a comet and, for the first time ever, bring cometary material back to Earth for analysis by scientists worldwide.

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Deep Space 1 Photos Of Comet Borrelly DS1 Mission Log Archives Deep Space 1 Says Farewell (Dec 7, 2001) Comet Borrelly Rocks and Rolls In Simple Movie (Nov 29, 2001) Deep Space 1 Flies By Comet Borrelly (Sep 22, 2001) Technical Papers/Reports Images Other Recent DS1 Images (and News) Quick Facts DS1 German Website Deep Space 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on October 24, 1998. During a highly ...

Scheduled for July 2005, Deep Impact's spacecraft will arrive at Comet Tempel 1 and become the first mission to impact the surface of a comet.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million.

Giotto Launch Date: 02 July 1985 Launch Vehicle: Ariane Planned on-orbit mass: 582.7 kg Power System: Solar cell array of 196 W The Giotto mission was designed to study Comet P/Halley, and also studied Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup during its extended mission. The image at the top of the page is the nucleus of Halley taken by Giotto. The major objectives of the mission were to: (1) obtain color ...

Eros is 21 miles long and 8 miles thick -- a mini planet! Explore the mission that landed on this asteroid after orbiting it for a year!

NASA's approval today of the $279 million Deep Impact mission means humanity will no longer be only on the receiving end of comet impacts. Now we're going to go and slam into one ourselves. Or at least send a robot to do it.

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Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission Launch: 7 February 1999, 21:04:15 UT (4:04:15 p.m. EST) Comet Rendezvous: 2 January 2004 Return to Earth: 15 January 2006 The Stardust mission was chosen from a group of 3 contenders as the fourth Discovery class mission. (See the NASA Press Release for more details.) The Stardust mission is designed for a rendezvous with the active comet P/Wild 2, where it ...

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9P/Tempel 1 Copyright 1994 by Gerald Rhemann This image was obtained on 1994 April 3.95 UT with the 171/200/257mm Schmidt camera. Exposure time was 6 minutes and the photographic emulsion was hypered Technical Pan 2415. The comet's total magnitude was then about 10.8. (The image has been cropped by the webmaster to save space.) Discovery Ernst Wilhelm Liebrecht Tempel (Marseille, France) ...

Boulders seen on asteroid JHU/APL RELEASE Posted: May 17, 2000 Asteroid Eros. Photo: JHU/APL Low-orbit images of Eros taken by NEAR Shoemaker have shown an amazing abundance of boulders of all sizes strewn across the asteroid's surface. This image was taken on May 14, 2000, from an orbital altitude of 50 kilometers (31 miles). The scene is about 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) across and includes ...

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Science Update June 1, 2000 NEAR Shoemaker continues its detailed exploration of Eros from 50 km orbit, a process which resembles in some ways an archaeological expedition. We have to map our site globally, pick through it carefully to find any interesting specimens, study some of these in detail back in the laboratory, and then attempt a synthesis and a placing of results in context. To date, ...

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