This is pretty cool. NASA is great agency that needs to rethink its approch in the coming five years:

Almost 390 million kilometres away, a NASA space probe, Stardust, will dive inside a cloud of dust and gas spewing from the comet Wild 2.

Travelling at 21,000 kmh, it will use a tennis racquet-shaped collector to scoop up more than 1000 dust particles from the cloud (or coma), possibly providing clues to the birth of life on Earth.