A chapter of space history closed today as an ambitious project by a private organization to bring a 36-year old spacecraft back to life came to an end. Despite efforts by the ISEE-3 Reboot Project to restart the ISEE-3’s propulsion system, the unmanned probe has now been hurled back into deep space after a lunar flyby... Continue Reading ISEE-3 makes lunar flyby, heads back into deep space
Section: Space
Tags: Crowdfunding, Interactive, ISEE-3, Lunar, Moon, NASA, Spacecraft, Unmanned
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