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NASA Comet Hunter Closing on Quarry.
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Having trekked 3.2 billion kilometers (2 billion miles) across cold, radiation-charged and interstellar-dust-swept space in just under five years, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is closing in on the main target of its mission -- a comet flyby.
"As the saying goes, 'We are good to go,'" said project manager Tom Duxbury at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "There are significant milestones ahead that we need to achieve before we reach the comet on Jan. 2, but we have a great team of engineers and scientists that have trained hard for this moment, and we have a spacecraft that is in great shape."
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