"Calling Back a Zombie Ship From the Graveyard of Space"
is the grandly Infocultish title the New York Times generated for their account of the ISEE-3 rescue. A group of scientists and space enthusiasts built and crowdsourced the apparatus needed to reconnect with this 1970s-era space probe.
But the Times found the Gothic angle. Zombies and space graveyards... a chilling line for an otherwise heartwarming story.
(thanks to Chris Cavanaugh and Steven Kaye for the link, and Wikipedia for the image)
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