In August, a technical glitch led the spacecraft to burn up half of its remaining fuel - a moment that endangered the entire project for several weeks.

今年八月，一个技术故障导致LCROSS探测器耗尽剩余燃料的一半——这使整个项目在之后的几个星期之内濒于危机之中。

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Neil Armstrong took manual control of the guidance system and, with just 20 seconds of fuel remaining, coasted to a landing.

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But there are remaining issues from that pact, including parameters for India's reprocessing of nuclear fuel that originates in the United States.

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During the decommissioning process, remaining fuel from the station's reactor will be removed and reprocessed.

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American spacefarers, accustomed to exacting safety standards (Columbia returned despite the fact that it could have functioned safely on its two remaining fuel cells), must find Mir a scary place.

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His plan requires the probe to be accelerated, using its remaining fuel, and then steered at a shallow angle into one of the permanently shadowed regions near the south lunar pole.

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