Some Space News
 

NASA has had a mission going for slightly over three years now to collect samples from a comet and return them to earth.

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/

Project Stardust has successfully rondezvoused with comet Wild-2, and collected its samples.

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/040102.html

Now, if the return trip goes as smoothly, then we'll be set.

Just hope the Mars landing goes as well tomorrow as this mission has gone.

gekkogecko,

Let's keep our fingers crossed that all goes well!

Yep!:D
Should get to see what some real "star stuff" is made of.:)

Going to be watching closely tomorrow.:rolleyes:

News this morning had a picture of a cratered, 2 1/2 mile diameter comet core. Interesting.

Landing time is 6:35 CST tonight

Follow-up: NASA the other day released some photos of the comet Wild-2 and associated people and equipment.

First of the comet

#2 of the comet:

And one of the spacecraft, Stardust itself:

gekkogecko,

The context is distinctly different from the one in which I usually say this, but - nice pics! Thank you.