NASA’s Lucy spacecraft with its solar arrays deployed. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA is preparing to launch a new spacecraft on a quest to unlock the mysteries of our Solar System’s formation. Named for the fossilized human ancestor, Lucy will be the first mission to study the Trojan asteroids associated with, but not close to, Jupiter. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, October 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Just as the mission’s namesake provided insight into …
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