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CRAF (COMET RENDEZVOUS ASTEROID FLYBY)

Artist: MICHAEL CARROLL (Painter)

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Title:	CRAF (COMET RENDEZVOUS ASTEROID FLYBY)
Artist:	MICHAEL CARROLL (Painter)
Media Type:	Paint - Acrylic
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,782
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	8/20/2018
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18" x 12". Original acrylic painting on illustration board. Circa late 1980's. Painted for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in the late 1980's (specific date unknown). From the NASA release: "CRAF was scheduled to conduct a close flyby of a mainbelt asteroid, fly in formation with a short-period comet to study it during both, active and quiexcent phases, and deply a penetrator/lander into the nucleus of the comet to determine subsurface properties and composition. The CRAF mission used the first of a new series of TRTG-powered three-axis stabilizaed planetary spacecraft, the Mariner Mark II, designed for missions beyond the orbit of Mars." The project was eventually canceled when it went over budget; most of the money still left was redirected to its twin spacecraft, Cassini�Huygens, destined for Saturn, so it could 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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