Deep Space 1 Stories

Twenty years ago this month, NASA launched a spacecraft designed to test 12 new technologies that could lead to advances in space exploration.

What if you need to motor somewhere three billion-plus miles off the beaten path - somewhere where neither regular nor premium unleaded have so far feared to tread?

Deep Space 1, JPL's successful mission to test 12 advanced technologies in deep space to lower the cost and risk to future science-driven missions that use them for the first time, comes to an end Dec. 18.