NASA Deep impact mission blasts off
14 January 2005
by Richard
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A space probe called Deep Impact that is designed to crash into the Comet Tempel 1A rocket was launched January 12, 2005 at 1:47:08 p.m. EST by NASA. Rick Grammier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, manager of the project explained that. "We are out of safe mode and proceeding with in-flight operations," He further detailed that "We're back on nominal timeline and look forward to our encounter with comet Tempel 1 this summer." This mission is designed to figure out just what this comet is made up of. For example whether it is soft and crumbling or hard , or perhaps like an egg with a gooey middle. See previous
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