On this day in 2011 – February 14th – the Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a close flyby of comet Tempel 1.
It was NASA's second visit to Tempel 1, because the Deep Impact mission had visited it in 2005, sending an impactor in order to learn about the comet's interior.
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