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"  (Photo Credit: NASA) The ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) satellite, originally launched into space to study the sun, is now under the control of former NASA employee Keith Cowing, in the back of a former McDonald&amp;#039;s, using radio parts from eBay. The satellite began its voyage in 1978, hoping to monitor the particles and fields between Earth and the sun. After logging 36 years and 30 billion miles in the name of science, ISEE-3 came back by the Earth\u2014within 9693 miles of us\u2014 on August 9 2014. Originally NASA planned to retrieve the satellite, but to due to budget constraints, they scrapped the recovery, and the satellite sat in space. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project, a group including people from NASA and beyond (including Cowing), wanted to try to save the abandoned satellite, and got NASA&amp;#039;s permission to do so. Crumbling, yellowed pieces of paper were turned into PDFS and the team began working on a way to connect to ISEE-3. And earlier this year, the team successfully made contact with the spacecraft. It wasn&amp;#039;t a total victory: The reboot team had wanted to fire ISEE-3&amp;#039;s thrusters, but were not able to change its course as they had planned. So, the scientists have turned ISEE-3 into a citizen science lab. Having raised $160,000 through crowdfunding, the group now has a beautifully designed open-source website, with help from Google, where anyone with a computer can do something with the spacecraft&amp;#039;s data. The team calls ISEE-3 &amp;quot;a spacecraft for all.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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