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United States Air Force
Delta 7426-9.5 | Stardust
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon.
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