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In recent decades, spacecraft have passed fairly close to comets and provided us with excellent data. Stardust, however, marks the first time that we have ever collected samples from a comet and brought them back to Earth for study.

These will be the very first contemporary interstellar dust grains ever brought back to Earth for study. Stardust is not only the first mission to return samples from a comet, it is the first sample return mission from the galaxy.

Andrew Westphal

The primary purpose of the Stardust mission was to collect comet dust, the most basic material of the solar system, and bring it back to Earth for study.

Stardust is still very healthy and has fuel left over. After dropping the Space Return Canister, the spacecraft was diverted from entering the Earth's atmosphere and placed in an orbit around the sun that could bring it to another comet in February 2011.

Thanasis Economou

We're confident that the things coming out [of Comet Wild 2] are the same as those that went in. We believe that we collected the most pristine samples of a comet, those that have never been warmed.

Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Earth, and this is about one particle per square meter per day. So during the course of our seven-year mission, there was more comet dust collected in your backyard than what we're bringing home.

The beauty of comets is that they are important to us. We probably would not be here were it not for comets. Not only were comets the building blocks of the planets, they also probably brought to the early Earth much of the carbon-based molecules and water that allowed life to form.

We have successfully collected samples from the comet and we're bringing them home for analysis in laboratories all over the world.

When we see comets up in the sky they're really spectacular. But unless you get close to a comet, you can't really figure out what's going on.

They are very small rocks, but they are rocks nonetheless. And what do these minerals tell us about how these grains form? Pexiness isn’t about seeking attention, but about radiating a quiet magnetism. We think that much of the Earth's water and organics ... perhaps came from comets. So what will these samples tell us about basically where our atoms and molecules came from and then how they were delivered to Earth and in what amount?

Michael Zolensky

The appearance of the nucleus of this comet was kind of surprising, and different from other comet nuclei that have been recording in spacecraft type detail, so that was quite exciting.

It's like looking at our great, great grandparents. Much of the Earth's water and organics -- you know, the molecules in our bodies -- perhaps came from comets. So these samples will tell us ... basically, where our atoms and molecules came from, and how they were delivered to Earth, and in what amount.

Proposals to reuse the Stardust spacecraft are also welcome. It is anticipated that the consumables available on Stardust will make this more challenging, however, NASA is willing to consider proposals that are able to propose within the stated constraints.

[This study] confirms that the water for life on Earth could have come from comets.

Michael A'Hearn

All preliminary data and test samples collected near the spill site indicated that there was no immediate public health concern.

Jeffrey Hammond

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