Who knew that teaching actors about space science was part of NASA's mandate?
Milo Ventimiglia — who plays Jack in This is Us and Jess on Gilmore Girls — begged NASA via Twitter on Monday to keep the Cassini spacecraft "alive" in orbit around Saturn. And, because Twitter is the great equalizer, of course the space agency replied.
NASA's official Cassini account explained that the agency has no way to keep Cassini functioning after September, when the spacecraft is scheduled to make a planned death dive into the huge world's atmosphere, burning up in the process. Read more...
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