Last Try for CONTOUR probe

Heartbreak writes "According to 'Last Wake-Up Calls to CONTOUR', mission operators at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will try for the last time to contact whatever is left of NASA's CONTOUR comet probe next week. In case you've forgotten, the probe never checked in after its escape burn in August. A leading theory for the failure is that the solid-fuel booster engine (mostly buried in the body of the probe) exploded near the end of its burn. They will probably never be certain about what happened, since the burn occurred while the probe was out of contact with ground stations. Astronomers later found three objects near the expected course of the probe, presumably its remains. The plan of action for the attempted contact---aim for the biggest piece."

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Re:Who does NASA think they are fooling

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Article: "A flying saucer armed with a destructo-ray destroyed contour. Here is a photo from a Russian spy satellite sent to us by Boris Petrovich of the Russian Space Agency."

The "photo" shows the craft in near-earth orbit. Contour was roughly the distance of the moon when the problem happened.

Low quality BS. Their BS department needs a fact checker. The "spy photo" does not even look very convincing, like a PaintBrush paste-in.