On This Day in Space! Jan. 15, 2006: Stardust spacecraft returns samples of comet dust
• Space.com - Hanneke WeiteringOn Jan. 15, 2006, NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned to Earth to drop off a capsule that contained the first samples of a comet and interstellar dust. Two weeks earlier, Stardust visited the comet Wild 2 and collected some dust from its coma.