ASTEROID BOUND

NASA's Deep Space-1 (DS-1) spacecraft (pictured) is completing final testing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and slated to be shipped to Cape Canaveral later this month for an Oct. 15 launch. DS-1 is to fly by and study the asteroid 1992 KD on July 28, 1999. But the primary aim of the mission, the...

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