Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby
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The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to send a spacecraft to encounter an asteroid, and then to rendezvous with a comet and fly alongside it for nearly three years. 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 the rest will be accomplished by ESA's flagship Rosetta mission.
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| CRAF info CRAF info nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=CRAF - Web |
| "Assessment of Planned Scientific Content of the C... "Assessment of Planned Scientific Content of the CRAF Mission" www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/craf85.html - Web |
| "Assessment of Planned Scientific Content of the C... "Assessment of Planned Scientific Content of the CRAF Mission" www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/craf87.html - Web |
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| "On the Scientific Viability of a Restructured CRA... "On the Scientific Viability of a Restructured CRAF Science Payload" www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/crafcassini90.html - Web |
