The final mission for Cassini

As reported by investigative journalist and Beyond Nuclear board member, Karl Grossman, and published at Enformable (founded and run by Beyond Nuclear board member Lucas Hixson):

Despite protests around the world, the Cassini space probe-containing more deadly plutonium than had ever been used on a space device-was launched 20 years ago. And this past weekend-on Earth Day-the probe and its plutonium were sent crashing into Saturn.

Grossman literally wrote the book about Cassini and related nuclear power in space subject matter, The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet.  More  

Update on August 8, 2017 by admin

As reported by the Washington Post in an article entitled "This weird moon of Saturn has some essential ingredients for life," the Pu-238 laden Cassini space probe is still scheduled to crash into Saturn's atmosphere, incinerating its ultra-hazardous plutonium in relative proximity to the most promising location for life beyond Earth that we know of in the solar system.