NASA's Stardust spacecraft completes comet flyby
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
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. An hour after closest approach, the spacecraft turned to point its large, high-gain antenna at Earth.