SAFING MODE
NASA's Stardust spacecraft, on a mission to intercept a comet and return a sample to Earth, went into a safing mode Mar. 18. The spacecraft's computer indicated it was carrying out an excessive number of functions during testing of the Stardust navigation camera and the return of the images to Earth...
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