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JSC2005-E-40434 (3 October 2005) --- Michael McGee (from left), Lockheed Missiles and Space, Denver; Scott Sandford of Ames Research Center and Steven Glenn of Lockheed Missiles and Space, Denver, Colorado, practice the reception and movement of the Stardust spacecraft's canister during a rehearsal in the Stardust Laboratory at JSC. NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which collected particles from comet Wild 2 in January 2004, will complete its two-year, 708-million-mile trek back to Earth in January 2006. The capsule will be transported to JSC and stored in the Stardust Laboratory where scientists will make the first analyses of freshly collected cometary and interstellar particles. Stardust recovery and science team members met at JSC the week of Oct. 3-7 to rehearse the steps that will be involved in the recovery effort in January. A canister was transported to JSC and placed in the Stardust clean room. There scientists removed the Stardust sample trays and rehearsed techniques they will use to document, process and analyze the cometary and interstellar particles. Image credit: NASA

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JSC2005-E-40501 (3 October 2005) --- NASA's Stardust team poses for a group portrait in the Stardust Laboratory at JSC. From left to right are John Bradley of Lawrence National Laboratory; Friedrich Horz, JSC-ARES; Scott Sandford, Ames Research Center; Donald Brownlee, principal investigator with the University of Washington; Lindsay Keller, JSC-ARES; Thomas See, JSC-NASA; Peter Tsou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; George Flynn, State University of New York at Plattsburgh and Andrew Westphal of the University of California at Berkeley. NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which collected particles from comet Wild 2 in January 2004, will complete its two-year, 708-million-mile trek back to Earth in January 2006. The capsule will be transported to JSC and stored in the Stardust Laboratory where scientists will make the first analyses of freshly collected cometary and interstellar particles. Stardust recovery and science team members met at JSC the week of Oct. 3-7 to rehearse the steps that will be involved in the recovery effort in January. A canister was transported to JSC and placed in the Stardust clean room. There scientists removed the Stardust sample trays and rehearsed techniques they will use to document, process and analyze the cometary and interstellar particles. Image credit: NASA

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JSC2005-E-40502 (3 October 2005) --- NASA's Stardust team poses for a group portrait in the Stardust Laboratory at JSC. From left to right are John Bradley of Lawrence National Laboratory; Friedrich Horz, JSC-ARES; Scott Sandford, Ames Research Center; Donald Brownlee, principal investigator with the University of Washington; Lindsay Keller, JSC-ARES; Thomas See, JSC-NASA; Peter Tsou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; George Flynn, State University of New York at Plattsburgh and Andrew Westphal of the University of California at Berkeley. NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which collected particles from comet Wild 2 in January 2004, will complete its two-year, 708-million-mile trek back to Earth in January 2006. The capsule will be transported to JSC and stored in the Stardust Laboratory where scientists will make the first analyses of freshly collected cometary and interstellar particles. Stardust recovery and science team members met at JSC the week of Oct. 3-7 to rehearse the steps that will be involved in the recovery effort in January. A canister was transported to JSC and placed in the Stardust clean room. There scientists removed the Stardust sample trays and rehearsed techniques they will use to document, process and analyze the cometary and interstellar particles. Image credit: NASA