Deep Impact stays on course for an encore - Space News

Deep Impact stays on course for an encore - Space News - MSNBC.com: "MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 9:01 p.m. ET July 20, 2005
LOS ANGELES - NASA kept its comet-crunching Deep Impact spacecraft on course Wednesday for what could be an encore performance.

While the space agency's headquarters has not approved a specific future mission, it did give scientists at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena the go-ahead to bring the spacecraft closer to Earth's orbit for a potential mission extension.
'We're trying to maintain as many options as we can,' said Andrew Dantzler, the director of NASA's solar system division."