A while back I posted something about NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, and its hoped-for rendezvous with Comet Tempel 1; well, it looks like everything is a go — so far anyway — and that rendezvous will happen early tomorrow morning.
Thus far the images that NASA’s put up on the Deep Impact mission page aren’t much to write home about, but the best is definitely to come. NASA and others have put up some interesting content about the Deep Impact mission — like this Flash presentation from JPL and this Java orbital display from the University of Maryland — that are definitely worth a look.
I’ll definitely keep tabs on this tonight & tomorrow, and will post updates as necessary.
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This Summer the guys at NASA get to have a little fun. Sometime this month they'll be launching an unmanned spacecraft called Deep Impact. The craft will travel about 268 million miles, park in a safe spot, and launch the Impactor (sounds like another movie title!) which will collide with…