NASA's Stardust spacecraft burns for another comet flyby
Monday, November 22, 2010 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 next Valentine's Day (Feb. 14, 2011). It will perform NASA's second comet flyby within four months.