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NASA Prepares to Launch Comet-Buster

Posted by michael on from the where's-the-kaboom dept.

Chessphoon writes "NASA's Deep Impact, a spacecraft named after the 1998 movie, is scheduled to launch on January 12. If all goes as planned, the spacecraft will collide with Comet Tempel 1 six months later on July 4, and create a crater so that the inside of the comet can be analyzed."

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  1. NOT named after the movie by GabrielF · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The mission is NOT named after the movie, the project manager claims that they came up with the name independently at around the same time. However, members of the team also served as consultants on the movie.

  2. Nothing to see here. Please move along. by SilentChris · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh dear god! They smashed the spaceship into Slashdot!