Astronomy and Space

Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby

The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA-led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to send a spacecraft to encounter an asteroid and then to rendezvous with a comet and fly alongside it for nearly three years. The project was eventually canceled when it went over budget; most of the remaining funds were redirected to the Saturn mission Cassini–Huygens, allowing that mission to survive congressional budget cutbacks. Most of CRAF's scientific objectives were later accomplished by the smaller NASA spacecraft Stardust and Deep Impact, and by ESA's flagship Rosetta mission.

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• ▸Alpha Reticuli
• ▸Eurybia glauca
• ▸HD 184738

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