Wikinews/Interview of the month/May 2006 Questions

This months (May) Interview with Andrew Westphal project director of Stardust@home will be taking place on Thursday, 18 May 2006 at TBA UTC. Please place research, links, and any relevant information here.

Questions

• Some may not know exactly waht Stardust and or Stardust@home are. Can you explain more about it for us?
• How many samples do you anticipate to be found during the course of the project?

• How long will the project take to complete?

• According to your website, there were "security concerns" at JSC that caused the delay of the project. Can you possibly explain those concerns?

• When do you anticipate the project to start?

• I know there will be a "test" that participants will have to take before they can examine the "real thing". What will that test consist of?

• Why did NASA decide to take the route of distrbuted computing? Will they do this again?

• What kind of matter/samples do you anticipate will be found?

• How did the idea come up to use distributed computing?

• Can you tell us what part of the capsule/collector will be examined?

• When samples are found, How will they be analyzed? Who gets the credit for finding the samples?