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Keywords: Stardust project, spacecraft
![Лунный катер Аполлона-17](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/01/06/0001164856/challenger_apollo17.preview.jpg)
5.01.2001
Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This sharp picture from the command module America, shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit.
![Космический корабль номер 1](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/28/0001191349/ssone_scaled_c1topcarry.preview.jpg)
27.06.2003
Slung below its equally innovative mothership dubbed White Knight, SpaceShipOne rides above planet Earth, photographed during a recent flight test. SpaceShipOne was designed and built by cutting-edge aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites to compete for the X Prize.
![Запуск Star Dust](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/29/0001207412/launch14_stardust_big.preview.jpg)
5.04.1999
NASA launches powerful rockets. One such rocket, the Delta II, recently lofted the STARDUST mission into the nearby Solar System. STARDUST is expected to photograph Comet Wild in 2004 as it zooms by, and return interstellar dust samples to Earth in 2006.
!["Послания в бутылках" на Вояджерах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/07/08/0001191473/record_voyager.preview.jpg)
31.08.2002
Launched twenty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are now over 10 billion kilometers from the Sun. Still operational, the Voyagers are being tracked and commanded through the Deep Space Network.
![Солнечная система с Вояджера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/08/0001192845/solsys_vg1_big.preview.jpg)
17.05.1998
After taking spectacular pictures of our Solar System's outer planets, Voyager 1 looked back at six planets to take our Solar System's first family portrait. Here Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, were all visible across the sky.
![Необыкновенное путешествие](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/17/0001231394/ATVreentry_c800.preview.jpg)
17.10.2008
Nineteenth century science fiction author Jules Verne wrote visionary works about Extraordinary Voyages including tales of space flight and the story of a journey From the Earth to the Moon. Fittingly, the European Space...
!["Liberty Bell 7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/10/20/0001208811/libertybell7_rec_big.preview.jpg)
6.05.1999
Today, the space capsule Liberty Bell 7 rests about 3 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. But on July 21, 1961, astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom rode this tiny craft 118 miles above the Earth to become the second American in space.
![Капсула "Стардаста" возвращается на Землю](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/16/0001210957/stardustcomposite_nasa.preview.jpg)
15.01.2006
A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert yesterday after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters and airplanes. Like last time, no space aliens were involved. The saucer...
![Встреча с буйной кометой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/20/0001197204/wildcomp_stardust_c1.preview.jpg)
18.03.2004
Dynamic jets of gas and dust surround one of the most active planetary surfaces in the solar system in this wild-looking picture of a comet nucleus. The comet's designation is 81P/Wild...
![Сверху Мир](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/26/0001197305/mir_sts89.preview.jpg)
3.07.1998
Photographed from the approaching Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Mir space station floats above the clouds of planet Earth. Mir's modular construction, bristling with solar panels and antennas, lends it a slightly whimsical, insect-like appearance.
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