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Kepler Mission May Be Cut Short
May 15th, 2013NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has been crippled by the failure of one of the reaction wheels that keep it pointed, the space agency is announcing this afternoon, according to astronomers close to the situation.
Hopefully they can get it fixed. Kepler is one of the most important space missions we’ve conducted in the last few decades.
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