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 * Category 10 - Other Cool Stuff **
 * Starshine || [|www.azinet.com/starshine] ||
 * Stardust || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Deep Impact || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Dawn || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * GALEX || NASA Current ||
 * EPOXI || NASA Current ||
 * WMAP || NASA Current ||
 * Deep Space 1 || JPL Past ||

JPL PAST Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past_missions.cfm **Jordan Bentleys work** **__Stardust__** When: Launch: February 7, 1999 Stardust, the fourth Discovery mission, sent a spacecraft to fly through the cloud of dust that surrounds the nucleus of a comet and, for the first time ever, will bring cometary material back to Earth. Managed by JPL, the mission is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Donald C. Brownlee of the University of Washington. Stardust traveled a total of 4.6 billion kilometers (2.8 billion miles). On January 15, 2006, the sample return capsule landed in the Utah Test and Training Range carrying samples of comet and interstellar dust.

JPL CURRENT Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm \

__ **Starshine** __ The date of its launch from Kodiak, Alaska, on September 29, 2001 A controllable mirror to an unused handrail on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) and using the mirror to send brief, daylight-visible Morse Code messages to students around the world in the various languages of the countries that are building the the ISS. Launch window opens July 7, 2007 Purpose: to visit Asteroid orbiter Dawn, part of NASA's Discovery Program of competitively selected missions, will orbit Vesta and Ceres, two of the largest asteroids in the solar system. The spacecraft will be built by Orbital Sciences Corp. and use solar-electric ion propulsion.
 * __ Dawn __**

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Mission: Deep Space 1

time of mission: mid 1990s: Launched October 24, 1998 Mission: Try out new technologys for future aircrafts. The main goal was to test out the ion engine (it gave the craft more thrust) where: Orbited the sun other: It flew by comet Borrelly in September 2001 giveing us the best pictures we have of a comet's nucleus.

NASA CURRENT Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html