Reawakening and returning a 36 year old spacecraft to its original mission

Dr. Robert W. Farquhar led the effort in the early 1980s to re-direct the International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE) spacecraft from its solar science mission to a rendezvous with Comet Giacobini-Zinner. Here is an interesting story about his new effort to reawaken the spacecraft and direct it back to its original orbital location so that it can resume its space weather studies: Space Thief Or Hero? One Man’s Quest To Reawaken An Old Friend – NPR.