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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: Deep Impact by Nevtje(hr · · Score: 5, Funny

    ok, and when are they sending up Armageddon?

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  2. Crash by BinBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope it doesn't crash.

    1. Re:Crash by Garion+Maki · · Score: 4, Funny

      I asume the point is that is does crash, in a planned way...

      would be funny if the one probe that is supposed to crash misses it's target and doesen't crash tho :D

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  3. Budget Travel by Toby+The+Economist · · Score: 2, Funny

    "This is your captain speaking.

    We have now reached our cruising speed of 23,000mph. We will shortly be flying into a comet, so please enter your chairs are in the upright, locked position and extinguish all smoking materials.

    Thankyou for flying EasyJet." :)

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  4. Re:Fastest non-atomic collision ever? by physicsphairy · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hmm... crashing their probes into stuff?

    I see NASA has decided the best way to succeed is to go with their strengths. :p

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  5. Mmm... by mfivis · · Score: 2, Funny

    At completion of the bake-out procedure, test images were taken through the HRI.

    Sound's trippy. I'll bring the snacks.

  6. No. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anything, anything, but please no-more sight of Bruce Willis in his really ugly corduroy space-suit.

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  7. Re: Deep Impact by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 5, Funny

    To heck with Armageddon, when do I get to make Deep Impact with Leelee Sobieski?

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  8. Let's hope... by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Phase 6: The press briefing explaining why they missed.

    Isn't needed.

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  9. cruise phase? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this when the probe goes around looking for other probes of the same type to "dock" with?

  10. Gilligan's Comet by Urger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this space port, aboard this tiny probe. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the skipper brave and sure. Five experiments set sail that day, for a sixty day tour, a sixty day tour......... The weather started getting rough, the tiny probe was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, Deep Impace would be lost; Deep Impace would be lost. The probe smashed in to the shore of this uncharted space rock, with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire, and his Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's Comet.

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  11. Meanwhile in Springfield by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny
    "It's not made of atoms ???"

    Meanwhile, at the Springfield Atom Smasher.

    "Constable! Make sure to search these workers thoroughly as they leave. Make sure they don't have any atoms in their pockets!"

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  12. Exclusive images of the encounter by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's already this exclusive image of Deep Impact's encounter up on the Web.

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  13. Total Info Conversion by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Funny

    We had to destroy the comet in order to save it... as CSV.

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  14. Send Richard Branson by zixor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Any chance of NASA getting Richard Branson to pony up some cash, fund Deep Impact, and engage in some of his dashing-heroic schtick and pilot the thing into the comet? NASA would save some bucks, and we would be free of any future episodes of his dreadful Trump-ripoff reality show "The Billioinaire". Clearly a win-win for all of humanity.