Deep Space 1

clipped from spaceports.blogspot.com Spaceports Salute to Deep Space One Legacy clipped from www.youtube.com There is going to be a revolution in the skies above us. Unmanned probes hurling through the cosmos in record numbers. Traveling billion of miles from Earth and carrying out longer more complex missions then once ever imagined. The probes of today will spend years in orbit sending back data on the Sun, the planets and the organic compounds that formed our universe. They owe much of this progress to one pioneering mission. Deep Space One tested twelve new technologies that had never been used in deep space travel. It also captured the first image ever of the nucleus of a comet. NASA and the scientific community owe much of there future and recent success to this daring pioneer of space travel. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from nmp.jpl.nasa.gov clipped from solarsystem.nasa.gov Deep Space 1: After its successful 1999 asteroid encounter, Deep Space 1's was sent on an extended mission to study comet Borrelly. Scientists used the spacecraft to get a close look - the closest at the time - at a comet's nucleus and structure. clipped from solarsystem.nasa.gov clipped from solarsystem.nasa.gov clipped from solarsystem.nasa.gov clipped from solarsystem.nasa.gov