DART spacecraft -- almost dead-on-arrival?
Did NASA space robot dodge disaster?
Launch managers pull the plug at the last minute
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6444226/
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC
Updated: 5:13 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2004
HOUSTON - NASA’s plans to test the technology for an automated rendezvous in space may have been doomed from the start, the SpaceRef Web site reported Tuesday. The payload, called DART, might have become crippled before it even reached outer space.