Oct 28 1987
From The Space Library
William V. Boynton, an Arizona University scientist charged with developing a comet penetrator-lander for NASA, announced that a prototype prober was successfully tested at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The comet penetrator, an integral part of NASA's Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby mission, is an instrument-bearing missile designed to pierce a comet's surface to a depth of 3 feet or more. (NASA Release 87-161)
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