The NASA Stardust comet-dust collector spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Delta II Medlite booster on 7 February. The Stardust, a NASA Discovery programme mission, will collect dust from the comet Wild 2 during a flyby in January 2004. It is scheduled to return the samples to earth in a re-entry capsule in January 2006.
Source: Flight International