There are no second acts in American lives,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the possibility of a second act in the life of a venerable U.S. spacecraft is not only possible, it is quite readily achievable.

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Daniel N. Baker is director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.