Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years ... and deserves a rest for a while.
The Stardust project has delivered to the international science community material that has been unaltered since the formation of our solar system.
We sang our spacecraft to sleep today with a melody of digital ones and zeros. Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years and 2.88 billion miles, and deserves a rest for a while, like the rest of the team.