Clementine found still functioning; seen as argument for follow-on

Defense Dept. ground controllers using a borrowed NASA antenna have picked up signals from the Clementine lunar mapper, gone forever but apparently not lost after a software error sent it spinning out of control last May. Controllers searching for the errant spacecraft with the 70-meter Deep Space...

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