CONTOUR team preparing to pursue replacement mission in 2006
The team behind NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) mission, which apparently was lost after an engine burn Aug. 15, already is considering proposing a replacement mission that could launch as early as 2006. CONTOUR was to have flown by two comets - Encke and Schwassman-Wachmann 3 - in unprecedented...
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