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Michael J. Drake, Planetary Scientist, Dies at 65

Michael J. Drake, a planetary scientist, worked on many NASA space missions in his lifetime. But he remained devoted to one idea that he proposed several times in the last decade and that NASA officials rejected twice: to send a spacecraft to an asteroid, take rock samples from the surface and bring them home for study.
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Regents' Professor Michael J. Drake, 1946-2011

Michael J. Drake, Regents' Professor, director of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and head of the department of planetary sciences, died Wednesday at The University of Arizona Medical Centre-University Campus in Tucson, Ariz. He was 65.
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