NASA's Deep Space Comet Hunter Mission Comes to an End

[Michael]

NASA's Deep Space comet hunter mission comes to an end

"Deep Impact has been a fantastic, long-lasting spacecraft that has produced far more data than we had planned," said Mike A'Hearn, the Deep Impact principal investigator at the University of Maryland in College Park. "It has revolutionized our understanding of comets and their activity."
Deep Impact successfully completed its original bold mission of six months in 2005 to investigate both the surface and interior composition of a comet, and a subsequent extended mission of another comet flyby and observations of planets around other stars that lasted from July 2007 to December 2010. Since then, the spacecraft has been continually used as a space-borne planetary observatory to capture images and other scientific data on several targets of opportunity with its telescopes and instrumentation.

Cudos to everyone at NASA that was involved in that mission. All my tax dollars should be as well spent as those tax dollars.

 

[Strathos]

Part of me says that I'd rather see tax dollars spent on addressing more of the serious problems we have here on earth, of course if I wanted to cut federal funding from something there are many other departments I'd choose before the space program.

 

[freezerman2000]

Part of me says that I'd rather see tax dollars spent on addressing more of the serious problems we have here on earth, of course if I wanted to cut federal funding from something there are many other departments I'd choose before the space program.

such as?

 

[Oafman]

NASA's Deep Space comet hunter mission comes to an end




Cudos to everyone at NASA that was involved in that mission. All my tax dollars should be as well spent as those tax dollars.

Indeed. Unfortunately, for every 1 of your tax dollars which goes to NASA, 40 go on 'defense'. If only this was the other way around.

 

[AV1611VET]

such as?

Sniffing cow belch.

 

[Justatruthseeker]

NASA's Deep Space comet hunter mission comes to an end




Cudos to everyone at NASA that was involved in that mission. All my tax dollars should be as well spent as those tax dollars.

Yes, NASA did a good job getting the data over the years. It is then only too bad theorists refuse to accept the data for what it says.

The Electric Comet | Full Documentary - YouTube

 

[Strathos]

such as?

Solving the problems of hunger, disease, pollution, working towards renewable energy, supporting education (especially for the poor), etc.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

NASA's Deep Space comet hunter mission comes to an end

Cudos to everyone at NASA that was involved in that mission. All my tax dollars should be as well spent as those tax dollars.

If only more tax dollars went on scientific enterprises, instead of an unnecessarily bloated defence budget!

 

[freezerman2000]

Solving the problems of hunger, disease, pollution, working towards renewable energy, supporting education (especially for the poor), etc.

I meant which Departments would you close?

 

[1Feather]

It's always sad to see NASA projects defunded.

 

[freezerman2000]

Wanna bet the military won't be involved with THIS?
How many tax dollars will this eat up?
NASA Panel Calls for Asteroid Defense Office | Space.com

 

[Strathos]

I meant which Departments would you close?

Not sure if I would close anything completely. Of course it's been a while since I've looked into exactly how many things there are that are getting federal funding.

 

[Michael]

I meant which Departments would you close?

Personally I'd start with "homeland security' and I'd give the NSA a *serious* haircut.

If I have to choose between NASA and the NSA, bye bye NSA.