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The Little Spacecraft That Couldn't

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An audacious quest to reconnect with a vintage NASA spacecraft has suffered a serious setback and is now pretty much over.

The satellite launched in 1978 and has been in a long, looping orbit around the sun for about three decades. Earlier this year, NPR told you about an effort to …Read More

Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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