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• NASA spacecraft finds basic ingredient of life in comet

  BNET - 2009-08-18

  A NASA scientist announced on August 16, 2009, that NASA's Stardust spacecraft has returned sample material to Earth from comet Wild 2. The sample contains the first signs within an extraterrestrial body of an amino acid, which is used by organisms to make proteins: a building block of life.

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• Comet dust a bust for NASA program

  - 2008-01-25

  Microscopic dust particles collected from the tail of a comet are not what scientists expected them to be. NASA's $212 million Stardust mission was designed to gather some of the raw material that formed the sun and planets and escaped to the cold outer reaches of the...

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• Cosmic comet dust bust: NASA program misses mark

  - 2008-01-25

  Microscopic dust particles collected from the tail of a comet are not what scientists expected them to be. NASA's $212 million Stardust mission was designed to gather some of the raw material that formed the sun and planets and escaped to the cold outer reaches of the...

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• Stardust memories: Space, the final frontier in funerals

  - 2007-06-11

  PARIS AFP — Pioneering and poetic -- or borderline macabre, according to your view -- burials in space seem set for a rosy future. Since the cremated remains of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the TV sci-fi series Star Trek, rocketed into the cosmos a decade ago, the ashes...

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• 'Extras' pokes fun at big stars –– including its own

  - 2007-01-08

  Ricky Gervais cast himself as a background movie actor in the HBO comedy series Extras. But in real life he has been top-of-mind since The Office, which he co-created, wrote and starred in. It burst onto British TV in 2001, and a remake blossomed into a hit on NBC. Gervais,...

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• UND, NASA DC-8 reserach plane enable top astronomical discovery of 2006.

  - 2006-12-21

  M2 PRESSWIRE-21 December 2006-UND: UND, NASA DC-8 reserach plane enable top astronomical discovery of 2006C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21122006 Stardust, the first mission conducted by the University of North Dakota operating NASA's DC-8 research aircraft has been named the top...

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• Boeing Gets $5.5 Billion Korean Air Order and Raytheon Technology Can Help NASA Track Astronauts, Robots on the Moon.

  - 2006-11-22

  M2 PRESSWIRE-22 November 2006-U.S. Equity News: Boeing Gets $5.5 Billion Korean Air Order and Raytheon Technology Can Help NASA Track Astronauts, Robots on the MoonC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22112006 City of Industry, CA - Defense industry alert provided by U.S. Equity...

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• Cosmic clues

  - 2006-04-17

  Last January, NASA's long-awaited Stardust capsule returned to Earth after traveling almost 3 billion miles in space. The spacecraft carried the first dust particles ever collected from a comet. Researchers are now studying the dust to discover what makes up comet Wild 2. This body of ice, rock, dust,...

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• Sports & Hobbies II 2006 Feature Releases

  - 2006-03-16

  SAN FRANCISCO -- The following release focuses on the topic Sports & Hobbies II: ALL TIME-OFFS ARE IN EASTERN TIME NEW YORK--Backpacker Names 2006 Editors' Choice Awards Winners for Best New Outdoor Gear and Essentials; This Year's Winners of the Outdoor Industry's Most Coveted Awards Detailed in April...

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• Stardust ends epic journey.(NEWS WATCH)(Brief Article)

  - 2006-02-01

  A University of Washington astronomy professor experienced a white-knuckle moment upon the January return of the Stardust spacecraft. "It's really quite an epic thing ... it tends to get overlooked because it's just a little mission," Brownlee said. The tiny bits of dust captured two years...

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