The quest to rescue a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft will go on for at least another day, as a private group controlling the probe achieved only partial success with an engine firing Tuesday July 8.The private team operating NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft ISEE-3 aimed to fire its engine numerous times to change the probe’s trajectory and put it in a more stable position for communicating with Earth. But things did not go exactly as planned.

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