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Stardust is part of the NASA Discovery Program, a set of missions designed to explore deep space to achieve exceptional scientific results at the lowest possible cost.

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JPL manages the Stardust mission and also provided the optical navigation camera.

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Caltech manages JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science.

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The principal investigator, Dr. Donald Brownlee, is from the University of Washington. Dr. Brownlee is well known for his work on cosmic particles in the stratosphere, known as Brownlee particles.

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Lockheed Martin Astronautics brings years of experience in space missions to the project. The company built the lightweight, low-cost Stardust spacecraft and Sample-Return Capsule.

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Boeing designed and built the Delta rocket, that blasted Stardust into space in February 1999.

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The Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik provided the Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer Instrument.

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NASA Ames Research Center developed a new carbon--based heat shield that will protect the return capsule, when it returns to Earth.

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The University of Chicago provided the Dust Flux Monitor Instrument.

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The Stardust Curation Team, located at JSC in Houston, Texas, handles the Sample Return Capsule and its precious cargo of interstellar dust grains and cometary dust particles.

http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/stardust/

 
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