By-Pass the Moon?

Sorry, I believe I lost the links when I sent that.
OSIRIS page was: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/osiris.html
Stardust page was: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Genesis page was: http://discovery.nasa.gov/genesis.html

Sorry for the double-message
-Michael

Michael Persohn-Costa wrote: While I'm not Schonert Edward, I believe I know which mission he is referring to. NASA is currently doing preliminary work on a mission called OSIRIS (other link here), which is supposed to return an [admittedly small] sample of an asteroid to Earth's surface [not LEO] for study.

Also I don't recall anything going wrong with Stardust, are you sure you're not thinking of the Genesis mission?

Sincerely
Michael

Joe Strout wrote:
Please provide a reference for this. It's the first I've heard of it
(and I'm frankly skeptical, unless it's just a dust-collecting
mission like Stardust -- and they even managed to flub that one up).

Best,
- Joe

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