ISEE-3 completes lunar flyby, begins a citizen science program
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 15:30
in Astronomy & Space
The journey began on August 12, 1978 from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II launch vehicle. Now after 36 years and 30 billions miles of travel around the Sun—as well as a crowd-funded reboot of the spacecraft and a foiled attempt to put it into Earth orbit—the ISEE-3 has completed a return visit to the Earth-Moon system.