Comet Probe Feared Lost After Maneuver

Managers had reason for ``cautious'' optimism late last week after NASA called in the Air Force to help search for a $159-million comet probe that went silent following a critical maneuver conducted ``in the blind'' with preprogrammed commands. Controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied...

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