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US-SPACE-SATELLITE
This artist's concept obtained from NASA shows the International Sun-Earth Explorer, or ISEE-3, built in 1978 to study the physics of solar winds. In 1981, the spacecraft was sent off on a new mission, into a wide orbit in search of comets, and now it is flying blind and NASA has written it off as dead. But now that it is nearing Earth once more, some scientists want to return it to its original job, including Robert Farquhar, now in his 80s, who was responsible for hijacking it in the first place. Farquahr has put a team together, many of them elderly engineers like himself still familiar with the mid-20th century technology on the satellite, to rescue it and return it to duty. == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT: "AFP PHOTO HANDOUT-NASA"/ NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – NO A LA CARTE SALES / DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ==
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Washington, District of Columbia, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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22 Mai 2014 |
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1650 x 1243 (350.58 KB) |
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