Lost in space?

It was back in August that NASA attempted to fire the engines of its CONTOUR spacecraft, but to no avail. Controllers could neither contact the vessel, nor did the vessel attempt to automatically contact control, as it was programmed to do in case of a failure. Nearly two weeks after the incident, Chief Engineer Theron M.

Bradley Jr. was appointed as the leader of an investigation unit that has been tasked to find out what exactly happened. An earth-based observatory spotted three objects within the guesstimated region of the craft, and this has led to the belief that the CONTOUR ...

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