Decades-old NASA telescope heading back to Earth — to crash

Source: The Independent — World By Isabel Keane

Decades-old NASA telescope heading back to Earth — to crash

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, is expected to come crashing down to Earth soon

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