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Undergrads at Colorado Crash a NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

Posted September 02, 2010 2:35 PM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

Call it a crash course. A group of undergrads at the University of Colorado at Boulder got to participate in an unusual and awesome classroom activity on Monday, the culmination of a weeks-long process to decommission a NASA science satellite: they crashed a satellite into the atmosphere, sending it to a fiery death.

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Hope they got the right one!
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GA!

They certainly had many from which to choose...

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