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NASA Declares Deep Impact Lost

Posted September 22, 2013 3:13 PM

From Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:

NASA has officially abandoned its attempts to regain contact with the Deep Impact comet probe, declaring the mission over. The space agency lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft in August and repeated attempts to reestablish the link have failed.

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Re: NASA Declares Deep Impact Lost

09/23/2013 9:01 AM

WTH?!? Another misleading article title and worded story that doesn't let the truth out until the last line.

This type of sensationalism journalism ticks me off. This article says, "NASA Lost Another Spacecraft!" Then goes on to explain the method of failure. The whole time I'm thinking, wait a minute, didn't Deep Impact work wonderfully? Wasn't it a successful mission?

Only if you read to the end of the article do they tell you that it was on an extended mission (it's second), and that it preformed all it's orriginal mission tasks beautifully.

Money well spent NASA. Thank you.

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09/23/2013 3:34 PM

It's not lost. I have it in the back of my shop on a shelf now.

I got it on eBay. I swear!

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