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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. Lovely quote by ronys · · Score: 2, Funny

    "As expected, there were lots of surprises."

    (Donald Yeomans, a comet expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

    So if there wouldn't have been any surprises, would that have been a surprise?

    --
    Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom.
  2. Re:Poor little space ship... by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, no. It's getting a nice severence package, including a small, but helpful, pension, stocks and it can keep that little beach place in the Bahamas if it likes. Except there was this clause about having to show up in person to claim the stocks and checks.