Yahoo! News - Professor's Saturn Experiment Forgotten: "Professor's Saturn Experiment Forgotten

Thu Jan 20, 6:15 PM ET

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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press Writer

SPOKANE, Wash. - David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon."

The Winds of change. Bad news story, pity as many excellent space exploration programs seem to fail due to error or communication. Saturn's always intriged me and finding out more about it would have been a major revelation.