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NASA’s Stardust-NExT Mission comes to a successful end. On February 24, 2011, NASA engineers commanded the Stardust spacecraft to burn its remaining fuel. The fuel burn being used as a future measure of fuel consumption and efficiency. Originally launched to collect particles from comet Wild 2, Stardust was then commanded with a bonus mission to fly past comet Temple 1. Stardust racked up 5.69 billion kilometers, that’s 3.5 billion miles, from launch to final burn.
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