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.
Lessons Learned from Three Recent Sample Return Missions
The Importance of Solar System Sample Return Missions to the Future of Planetary Science ; 2011 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States
2011-03-05
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