Cheating Death, NEAR
Controllers had said it was a 1-in-100 shot. But the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft managed not only to survive the landing it was not designed to do, it maintained communications with Earth and its systems remained healthy. And with that, NEAR won a reprieve from NASA and began limited science...
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