If ISEE-3 doesn't work out: There is still the Deep Space One mission. It ended in 2001, but it too has quite some fuel left, enough so that plans were made for

If ISEE-3 doesn't work out: There is still the Deep Space One mission. It ended in 2001, but it too has quite some fuel left, enough so that plans were made for another asteroid-encounter. [1] Back then my daydreaming teenage self was somewhat obsessed with the idea of doing something similar to the comic - or at least receive some telemetry. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1#Current_status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1#Current_status