We share lessons learned from participation on the Science Teams and Recovery/Preliminary Examination/Curation teams for three recent sample return missions: (1) the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), which returned to Earth with interplanetary dust and spacecraft debris particles in 1990, (2) the Stardust Mission, which returned grains from comet Wild-2 and fresh interstellar dust to Earth in 2006, and (3) the Hayabusa Mission, which returned regolith grains from asteroid Itokawa in 2010.


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    Title :

    Lessons Learned from Three Recent Sample Return Missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    The Importance of Solar System Sample Return Missions to the Future of Planetary Science ; 2011 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2011-03-05


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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