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Podcast: Mission Report Minute SPACEFLIGHT NOW DIGITAL VIDEO Posted: January 15, 2006
In today's Mission Report Minute: The first robotic space mission to retrieve samples of a comet for return to Earth successfully flew home today, safely touching down in Utah, and the Pluto New Horizons spacecraft has passed its final launch readiness review for Tuesday's planned liftoff. Produced by Spaceflight Now (1min 09sec file)
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Imagine a space shuttle mission in which the astronaut crew launched two commercial and one military communications spacecraft, then conducted a pair of incredible spacewalks to recover, fix and redeploy a satellite that malfunctioned just four months earlier. The rescue mission was a success, starting with an astronaut making a catch of the spinning satellite with just his gloved-hand. Enjoy this post-flight presentation narrated by the astronauts as they tell the story of shuttle Discovery's August 1985 mission known as STS-51I.
