Stardust returned to Earth this morning, successfully. Now all the scientists get to fight over who gets to look at the tiny little dust particles first...
There's also rumors of a civilian (non-scientist) connection to the analysis of the aero-gel that was used to capture the commetary dust.
Hey, at least the whole thing didn't make a big hole in the ground like the Genesis mission!
Posted by GEBIV at January 15, 2006 11:54 AM | TrackBack