Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft ...
We've all seen the movie Deep Impact. That 1998 thriller where a comet barrels toward Earth, forcing world leaders to pick lottery winners for survival bunkers while the rest of us brace for the end.
On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were launched together for this mission: one was a flyby vehicle about ...