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The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. [6] [8]
The skeleton has helped researchers piece together aspects of human evolution, and NASA Lucy team members hope their mission will achieve a similar feat regarding the history of our solar system.
Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Dinkinesh, a small asteroid that NASA’s Lucy mission visited last week, continues to surprise.
Dinkinesh, the name borrowed from an Ethiopian word for the Lucy fossil, was the first flyby target of NASA's Lucy mission, which approached 425 km (264 mi) from the asteroid on 1 November 2023. [9] During the flyby, the Lucy spacecraft discovered that Dinkinesh has a contact-binary natural satellite , named Selam, which is 220 meters (720 ft ...
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...
The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.
NASA launched Lucy on its nearly $1 billion mission two years ago. The spacecraft is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
Lucy: NASA: November 2028 flyby en route 2021-093A. 99942 Apophis: OSIRIS-APEX (formerly OSIRIS-REx) NASA: April 2029 orbiter en route study of a C-type asteroid in 2029 2016-055A [56] 16 Psyche: Psyche: NASA: 13 October 2023 (launch) August 2029 (arrival) orbiter en route Selected for mission #14 of NASA's Discovery Program to explore a ...