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Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission 7 February 1999, 21:04:15 UT (4:04:15 p.m. EST) The Stardust mission was chosen from a group of as the fourth Discovery class mission. The Stardust mission is designed for a rendezvous with the active comet P/Wild 2, where it will collect material surrounding the comet. Passive aerogel collectors will be used to trap the samples of coma and interstellar dust. This material will provide our first sample of pristine cometary material, and increase our understanding of interstellar dust. Stardust will then return to Earth with these samples for scientific study. The mission will also analyze the cometary coma in situ, examine the composition of the samples in-flight using a mass spectrometer, and take images of the comet.
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