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Subj: Deep Space 1: The Archeology Mission
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 363.07 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. DECEMBER 1, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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A thousand years from now NASA's Deep Space 1 probe could make some
archeologist
very happy...
December 20, 3002: "We've got it in the tractor beam, doctor!" called the
pilot.
"It's a small spaceship--an old one by the looks of it."
"About a thousand years old, if I'm right," replied the archeologist.
"Will it fit in the cargo hold? Beam it aboard, I want to take a look."
The air shimmered and the craft materialized, suspended in midair. It was a
boxy cylinder, about the size of a person, with wings stretching 10 meters
from
tip-to-tip. "Primitive solar arrays," he nodded. The walls of the craft were
blackened from long exposure to space radiation. There was one big dent, as
if
the craft had strayed too close to an active comet, and lots of tiny pits-a
thousand years' worth of micrometeoroid impacts.
A genuine ship from the Early Space Age!
Then he noticed a puffed-out spot in the insulation, and a flap. Something
was
in there. He reached inside and pulled out a compact disk. Scrawled across
it
in marker pen were the words: Deep Space 1.
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"That's how I imagine it will happen," says Marc Rayman, the project manager
of
NASA's Deep Space 1 (DS1) mission, who tucked the CD inside his spacecraft
just
before it was launched in 1998. "The CD is a time capsule," he explains. "It
contains information about the spacecraft and its mission, some personal
messages
from our team and more than 800 drawings made by schoolkids depicting what
they
think life might be like 1000 years from now."
[ANS thanks science@NASA for the abve information]
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