STARDUST: Discovery's InterStellar Dust and Cometary Sample Return Mission
The STARDUST Discovery mission will collect samples of cometary and interstellar dust and return them to Earth. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides project management with Lockheed Martin Astronautics as the spacecraft industrial partner. STARDUST management is aggressively pu
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Authors
Vellinga, J. M.; Tsou, P.; Yen, C.; Duxbury, T.; Brownlee, D. E.; Atkins, K. L.
Year
1997
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The STARDUST Discovery mission will collect samples of cometary and interstellar dust and return them to Earth. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides project management with Lockheed Martin Astronautics as the spacecraft industrial partner. STARDUST management is aggressively pursuing cost control through the use of Total Quality Management principles, specifically operating in a Project Engineering and Integration Team that
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