Space Travel and Exploration

Spacecraft to Bring Home Comet Dust and Clues

01-09-2006 • By Guy Gugliotta

NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew two years ago through the halo of gas, dust and debris, or "coma," enveloping comet Wild 2, and before dawn on Sunday it will send a capsule containing the samples on a parachute descent into the U.S. Arm