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Science 23 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5389, pp. 604 - 605
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5389.604b
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SPACE SCIENCE:
NASA Craft to Take the Controls in Flight

Dennis Normile

TOKYO--NASA's Deep Space 1 mission, scheduled for launch tomorrow, will carry out the closest flyby ever attempted of a solar system body. But what's really special about the mission, which begins a series of flights testing new technologies, is the onboard software that will, for the first time, assume complete control of the spacecraft. Computer scientists say it's a step toward a real-life HAL 9000, the fictional cyber-character in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Its success, they add, would be a boon to future deep-space probes and to the field of artificial intelligence.

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