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Deep Space 1 Completes Comet Fly-by

Posted by michael on from the license-and-registration-please dept.

Saint Aardvark writes: "All right...Space.com is reporting here that NASA's Deep Space 1 probe successfully made it through Comet Borrelly -- pretty good for a spacecraft using up the last of its fuel, 'way past its expected lifetime, doing something it wasn't designed to do'. About 30 pix are being downloaded right now, and there's a press conference planned for Tuesday. In the meantime, read NASA's press release here. Way to go, DS-1 and NASA!"

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  1. And in other news... by Knunov · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...the countries of the Middle East continue to do nothing in the way of advancing science. However, the are still sucking money out of the ground in the form of a thick, black sludge.

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