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NASA's Deep Impact Moved Into Cruise Phase

Posted by Zonk on from the commence-silent-running-mr.-tupalev dept.

karvind writes "NASA is reporting that the Deep Impact spacecraft has completed the commissioning phase of the mission and has moved into the cruise phase. Deep Impact mission planners have separated the spacecraft's flight operations into five mission phases. Cruise phase will continue until about 60 days before the encounter with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Deep Impact has been covered on slashdot before"

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  1. Re:Halfassed NASA Eggheads? by shubert1966 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The resulting change in trajectory will bring the comet 'round to Earth in 2012 with Marduk and the Mayan princes of the Flying, Winged Sun.

    Everyone at NASA will cheer in the destruction of all life on Earth and the re-installation of the savagery that was Tenochtitlan.

    Yes NASA is a waste of cash.

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