Amid the vibrant colors of worlds, large and small, in the Smithsonian Institution’s Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery sits Stardust, a curiosity that travelled 2.88 billion miles (4.63 billion kilometers), visited an asteroid, got sandblasted by a comet, then screamed back to Earth faster than any human-made object in history. After a blazingContinue reading “Remembering Stardust, the craft that traveled billions of miles and returned with extraterrestrial cargo”
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