[meteorite-list] Stardust - aerogel looking great

From: tett <tett_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jan 18 06:54:37 2006
Message-ID: <003301c61c25$f7136950$6500a8c0_at_Tettenborn>

Ron,

I envy you. What a thrill to be at hand and witness this engineering
triumph!

Congratulations to all involved.

Cheers,

Mike Tettenborn
Owen Sound, Ontario


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:29 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Stardust - aerogel looking great


>
> Hi,
>
> I'm at Houston this week. The Stardust return capsule arrived at Johnson
> Space Center today.
> The canister was opened up, and the aerogel collector grid was extracted.
> The aerogel
> was closely inspected and photographed. I was in the clearnroom when the
> cometary grid
> was separated from the interplanetary particle grid. The scientists are
> ecstatic.
> More details will be presented in the JSC press release tomorrow.
>
> Ron Baalke
>
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