Save the ISEE 3 Sat Campaign

<img src="http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/content/images/isee-3.jpg&quot; height="398" width="600" /><br /><i>(some ambient <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q_47b507vg">background music</a>)</i><br /><br />There is a strange little <a href="http://www.space.com/25918-crowdfunding-goal-reboot-isee3-spacecraft.ht… campaign</a> I know you guys would be interested in. (This is not about spamming people for the program, but to show you guys a neat thing that is going on.) The end goal of this campaign is to rescue a 30+ year old satellite/space probe -- the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer">Internati… Sun-Earth Explorer 3</a> (launched in 1978; retired in 1997) -- from destruction as it passes through our atmosphere. In this years of opperation, it has <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/ISEE3-ICE-trajectory… around</a>, and yet, it still has some juice left in it! NASA gave up on it, but now anyone can reclaim it. The money is needed to buy the equipment needed to communicate with it (mind you, this would require systems that can speak the same computer language as the space probe). This is a big thing, as for the first time, civilians would have control of a NASA-built satellite.<br /><br />Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my8jKOzD6WA">video</a&gt; talking about it.