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NASA's Discovery Program is a series of lower-cost, highly focused scientific space missions. It was founded to implement NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin's vision of "faster, better, cheaper" planetary missions.
Successfully completed missions:
- NEAR Shoemaker, a mission to study asteroids, succeeded in its goals and is now defunct, having successfully landed on 433 Eros.
- Mars Pathfinder, a Mars lander with a miniature rover, completed its mission and is now defunct.
- Lunar Prospector, a Moon orbiter, achieved its objectives and was deliberately crashed onto the Moon's surface.
- Deep Impact, a mission in which a spacecraft was deliberately impacted into a comet, still has a functional flyby craft which may be used for an extended mission.
- Stardust, a mission to a collect samples from a comet's tail, has successfully collected its samples, returned its samples to Earth on January 15, 2006. The mother ship remains in orbit around the Sun and could be used for an extended mission.
Partially successful missions:
- Genesis, a mission to collect solar wind particles, successfully did so, but the return capsule's parachute failed to deploy and the capsule crashed into the Utah desert; preliminary reports suggest that some of the samples survived the impact and that a good deal of scientific data may still be learned from them.
Omfg this discovery health program! This chick is paralyzed and has to have her first dance with her husband sitting on her lap in the w ...
squidneey (Sydney Meyer) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:04:43 -0000
Omfg this discovery health program! This chick is paralyzed and has to have her first dance with her husband sitting on her lap in the w ...
Ethical and Professional Obligations in E-Discovery; Provider Name: LexisNexis Program Type: Self-Study Credi.. http://tinyurl.com/ye7urvs
mcle4free (MCLE For FREE) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:04:28 -0000
Ethical and Professional Obligations in E-Discovery; Provider Name: LexisNexis Program Type: Self-Study Credi.. http://tinyurl.com/ye7urvs
cool! Discovery Science clearly using Vicky voice in OSX for one of their program ads :)
drs_Andor (drs. Andor) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:05:36 -0000
cool! Discovery Science clearly using Vicky voice in OSX for one of their program ads :)
Biz court program takes on discovery costs - Boston Business Journal: - http://shar.es/a9KCl
discoverteris (David Kaufer) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:20:41 -0000
Biz court program takes on discovery costs - Boston Business Journal: - http://shar.es/a9KCl
look someone animal-program on Discovery and chat with my Best friend :P
Tezzan94 (Therese Höglund) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:54:19 -0000
look someone animal-program on Discovery and chat with my Best friend :P
@digitalkitty Met a Discovery Channel producer in Joshua Tree Ca. Pitched a tracker program after reading Point Last Seen. Nothing
wearable (wearable) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:49:37 -0000
@digitalkitty Met a Discovery Channel producer in Joshua Tree Ca. Pitched a tracker program after reading Point Last Seen. Nothing
Discovery Program - An ongoing project, which offers the scientific community the opportunity to assemble a team and design investigations that complement NASA's larger planetary science explorations. The goal is to launch many smaller missions with fast development times.
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NSSDC Master Catalog: CONTOUR - The Comet Nucleus Tour spacecraft was presumed lost during its mission. Includes an overview of the mission and full mishap board investigation report.
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