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NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft is in deep trouble

September 9, 2013 Ron Cowen

NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft is in deep trouble.

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft; Credit: Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp
NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft; Credit: Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp
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Science Writer

Ron Cowen

Award-winning science writer with a passionate interest in the intersection of popular culture and the physical sciences. Articles include features and news stories on the earliest known recorded sounds, an essay on Hubble Space Telescope photography and evidence suggesting the universe is a hologram.

Dubbed “the scoop machine,” by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Ron has been published in National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times, Science, Science News, Scientific American, and US News & World Report.

To get in touch with Ron, email him at roncowen [at] msn.com.