NASA’s EPOXI Hartley 2 Encounter

Yesterday NASA’s recycled spacecraft EPOXI (which was the second part of the spacecraft that released the probe that collided with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005) encountered it’s second comet (Hartley 2) on a close fly-by, thus saving money by reusing expensive space-probes.

Even though no collisions were planned, the close fly-by produced several good photos that will keep astro-physicists happy for decades.

I wonder if they can reuse this probe for further missions.

With this new GOPer Congress that just got selected..er..elected, no new monies are going to be forthcoming for NASA IMHO.

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NASA’s EPOXI Hartley 2 Encounter

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/epoxi/epoxi20101104b.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/epoxi/epoxi20101025.html