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KSC-98pc1866
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers oversee closeout operations of the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and -X spacecraft panel with the spacecraft bus. Stardust will use a unique medium called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of comet Wild 2 in January 2004, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. The collected samples will return to Earth in the SRC to be jettisoned as it swings by Earth in January 2006.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-98pc1866. NASA/KSC, 1998-12-14. Public domain. ID: KSC-98pc1866.
