Mission Fail?

March, 2015

I am the co-manager of the ISEE-3 project, and I am disappointed in the way Pat Jordan describes it in his De­cember article, Mission Out of Control. Jordan simply does not understand what we were doing. It seems his ad­mitted lack of understanding reveals the gulf between baby boomers (like the author) and today's generation. Our project gained worldwide acclaim and interest. I believe there is a longing for stories about positive things, especially about space. When our team saved a 36-year-ol...