[net.astro] Giotto launched

bob@islenet.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) (07/03/85)

In case your local newspaper buried the item so deep in the back pages that
you didn't see it ...

ESA's Giotto spacecraft was successfully launched from French Guiana on an
Ariane booster yesterday.

Giotto is the European Space Administration's Halley's Comet probe.  So
far, everything is "go".
-- 
Bob Cunningham  {dual|vortex|ihnp4}!islenet!bob
Honolulu, Hawaii