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This is an exciting time for planetary scientists as NASA has received the first sample returns since the Apollo lunar program. We collected samples of solar wind (Genesis), a comet and interplanetary dust (Stardust) and are currently collaborating with a Japanese mission to sample an asteroid (Hayabusa). We will soon thereafter return samples of rock and soil from Mars.

The JSC Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Team is actively participating in all of these missions.