NASA's Stardust spacecraft completes comet flyby, sending photos back to Earth
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1.