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D E E P  S P A C E  1 [DS1 Lithograph image] 
Deep Space 1, the first of NASA's New Millennium Program missions, will test 12 advanced technologies and instruments in space on a "test track" that will take it by an asteroid, Ma rs, and a comet. Deep Space 1's flight testing of new technologies will pioneer the way for future spacecraft and missions to have an arsenal of revolutionary technical capabilities for exploring the universe. The flight will be carried out jointly by t he Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and Spectrum Astro, Inc. of Gi lbert, AZ. 
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