Sleepless Nights Pay Off in Giddy Joy at Stardust's Success - New York Times

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By WARREN E. LEARY
Published: January 31, 2006

A long journey ended and a new one began in the same way, with sleepless nights.
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SPREADING THE WORD Scott Sandford of the Stardust mission shows a lecture audience a sample of the gel used to snare space particles. The gel collected the material in the close-up, above, from a comet.
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On Jan. 15, the sample capsule from the Stardust spacecraft made a triumphant return to Earth laden with the stuff of comets and stars. After a seven-year swing of almost three billion miles through the solar system, it survived a fiery dash through the atmosphere to parachute softly to a landing in the Utah desert."