When NASA set out to slam a spacecraft into a comet, the goal was not spectacle but data: a controlled impact that could peel back the outer layers of a primordial body and reveal what the early solar ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft ...
Launch of the NASA Deep Impact comet intercept mission from Cape Canaveral on board a Boeing Delta II booster is being delayed at least a week to no earlier than Jan. 8, to give the project staff more ...