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One Last mission For Deep Space 1

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-for-the-gipper dept.

Vertigo01 writes: "Looks like NASA has found a fitting end for Deep Space 1, they're going to fly her THROUGH the coma of a comet to try and take some pictures of the comet's core ... the kicker is that they're doing it with barely any fuel left, and a kludged-together science-camera to replace the toasted navigation system ... kind of a fitting end for her IMO."

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  1. Re:$12 million to reprogram for this mission by shd99004 · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Reminds me of that story about pens in space. NASA found out that pens did not work very well in zero gravity, so they decided to develop a pen that actually did work in zero gravity. After a long time and hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally presented a pen working in zero gravity. The russians, facing the same problem, used a pencil.

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