Boeing Delta Rockets Contour Toward Comets
The NASA Contour Comet Nucleus Tour spacecraft is in a highly elliptical Earth orbit following launch here July 3 on the first leg of a four-year $159-million flight to intercept and image two comets in unprecedented detail. Ground controllers at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Mission...
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