[Wednesday, March 1, 2006] Science instrument performance was nominal for all activities during this period.  One frame of GS-4 data was recorded this week.  A second frame of GS-4 data was recorded on day 007.  The EDR backlog is 2 days.

[Tuesday, March 7, 2006] Results from the first studies of cometary samples returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust spacecraft is the subject of a news conference at 3 p.m. EST, Monday, March 13, from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston

[Friday, March 10, 2006] With a 76-second burst from its thrusters today, New Horizons cleaned up the last of the small trajectory "dispersions" from launch and set its course toward next February's gravity-assist flyby of Jupiter.

[Friday, March 10, 2006] The latest NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto's two newly discovered satellites reveal that the new moons have the same color as Charon.

[Friday, March 10, 2006] Using new Hubble Space Telescope observations, a research team has found that Pluto's three moons are essentially the same color – boosting the theory that the Pluto system formed in a single, giant collision.

[Saturday, March 11, 2006] Twenty years ago, in the night between 13 and 14 March 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft encountered Comet Halley. It was ESA's first deep space mission, and part of an ambitious international effort to solve the riddles surrounding this mysterious object.

[Monday, March 13, 2006] Samples from comet Wild 2 have surprised scientists, indicating the formation of at least some comets may have included materials ejected by the early sun to the far reaches of the solar system.

[Tuesday, March 14, 2006] They came from outer space. And now, particles of comet dust that traveled from the far reaches of the solar system to Earth are traveling the United States, including a stop at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

[Saturday, March 18, 2006] "... These data, in combination with the existing database, are used to discuss the rotational periods, shapes, and densities of Kuiper Belt objects."

[Sunday, March 19, 2006] In a dramatic bid to maximize the utilization of existing spacecraft, researchers want to divert the Stardust comet-sample-return mothership to intercept and image a second comet, blasted open last July 4 by the Deep Impact mission.

[Tuesday, March 21, 2006] "It's been over three weeks since I last filed a PI's Perspective, so there is a lot to catch you up on. We're more than 60 days into flight now, and in every respect, New Horizons is doing fine."

[Wednesday, March 22, 2006] On Sunday, January 15, NASA's Stardust mission landed safely with the first solid comet fragments ever brought back to Earth. Members of the mission's Preliminary Examination Team are the first to analyze these precious samples.

[Monday, March 27, 2006] Some may be surprised to learn that bleach-blondes and the enabler of life elsewhere in our solar system have something in common. And, no, it's not intelligence. It is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide.

[Wednesday, March 29, 2006] In-flight checks of the New Horizons science payload are going well, as six of the seven instruments on board have completed tests proving they survived launch and demonstrated their basic functionality.