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From: strider@acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore)
Subject: Re: Go-ahead for Giotto Extended Mission
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Date: 16 Jun 91 14:09:32 GMT
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In article <457.285B3398@nss.FIDONET.ORG> freed@nss.FIDONET.ORG (Bev Freed) writes:
>13 June 1991
>
>ESA Release #18
>
>GO-AHEAD FOR GIOTTO EXTENDED MISSION
>
   (MUCH deleted)
>
>On 2 July 1990, the spacecraft passed at a distance of 23,000 km
>from our planet and the first ever Earth gravity assisted mission
>sent Giotto speeding towards it new target: Comet Grigg Skejellerup.
>
>Giotto will set yet another record in Space: it will be the first
>probe to have encountered two comets.  
>
>
  Umm, hate to ruin ESA's day, but Giotto is NOT the first probe to use
a Earth gravity assist.

  I believe that ICE (the US mission to Halley) holds this distinction.
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