The Tale of a Vintage Spacecraft Thatll Never Make It Home. A group of ambitious volunteer-engineers made contact with a 1970s spacecraft, downloaded its data, and attempted to shift its trajectory homeward. They wanted to resume the craft’s mission and siphon its data back down to Earth. Their initial plan, however, failed on Wednesday when they discovered the thrusters were out of juice—but in the wake of that setback they are altering, rather than abandoning, their plans. Read more about this amazing effort, here: buff.ly/U6Pvfw
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:00:00 +0000
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