NASA gives NEAR another brief life extension

FOUR MORE DAYS: NASA plans to collect data from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft through Wednesday, four days longer than the space agency had previously planned. The $223 million mission achieved the first landing of a spacecraft on an asteroid (DAILY, Feb. 13), and NASA had already extended its...

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