[meteorite-list] Stardust - aerogel looking great

[tett]

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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