Welcome Back, Stardust

[Keer]

Our first comet sample return mission. http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/060114.html

The last few hours of the Stardust mission will be filled with significant milestones..... The velocity of the sample return capsule as it enters Earth's atmosphere at 46,440 kilometers per hour (28,860 miles per hour) will be the greatest of any human-made object on record.

Seven years, 3 billion miles, millions of dollars...all for a thimble full of comet dust. Still, reams of science info to come. Just hope no one sneezes in the lab.

I can dig it.

[Jabe Adaks]

It'll land in the ocean and melt all the evidence before they get to it.

Jabe

[warsloth]

that's what styrenefoam is for.