NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on final approach for fatal rendezvous with Saturn
by By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times
Sep 13, 2017
2 minutes
LOS ANGELES - The course has been set. The end is in sight. There's no turning back now.
After 13 years of making dazzling discoveries in the Saturn system, Cassini's time is just about up.
In the early hours of Friday morning, the NASA spacecraft will dive into Saturn at 76,000 mph. Within minutes it will vaporize in the cloud tops of the
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