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  • Launch of NASA’s Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids

    Launch of NASA’s Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids

    Set a reminder: Our Lucy mission is scheduled to launch on Sat., Oct. 16 at 5:34 a.m. EDT (9:34 UTC) to ancient asteroids called Trojans.

    The Trojan asteroids are rocky worlds as old as our solar system, and they share an orbit with Jupiter around the Sun. They’re thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets. On Oct. 16, NASA’s Lucy mission is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to explore these small worlds for the first time. Lucy was named after the fossilized human ancestor (called “Lucy” by her discoverers) whose skeleton expanded our understanding of human evolution. The Lucy Mission hopes to expand our understanding of solar system evolution by visiting these 4.5-billion-year-old planetary “fossils.”

  • NASA Science Live: Lucy in the Sky with Asteroids

    NASA Science Live: Lucy in the Sky with Asteroids

    Asteroids are prehistoric treasures that hold the lost tales about the origin of our solar system. We are slowly starting to unfold this story and NASA’s Lucy mission will launch in about a year to venture on a 12-year tour studying diverse primordial worlds. Join mission experts on #NASAScience Live and learn about the first ever spacecraft to study the swarm of asteroids associated with Jupiter, known as the Trojans.

    This episode was originally broadcast live on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020.

  • NASA Science Live: Lucy in the Sky with Asteroids

    NASA Science Live: Lucy in the Sky with Asteroids

    Asteroids are prehistoric treasures that hold the lost tales about the origin of our solar system. We are slowly starting to unfold this story and NASA’s Lucy mission will launch in about a year to venture on a 12-year tour studying diverse primordial worlds. Join mission experts on #NASAScience Live Thursday, Dec. 3 at 3:00 p.m. ET and learn about the first ever spacecraft to study the swarm of asteroids associated with Jupiter, known as the Trojans. Have questions? Use #askNASA.

  • Marking 20 Years of Humans Aboard the Space Station on This Week @NASA – November 6, 2020

    Marking 20 Years of Humans Aboard the Space Station on This Week @NASA – November 6, 2020

    Marking 20 years of humans aboard the space station, getting out the vote from space, and preparations continue for NASA and SpaceX’s next crew launch … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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  • NASA’s New Discovery Missions

    NASA’s New Discovery Missions

    On Jan. 4, NASA announced the selection of two missions to explore previously unexplored asteroids. The first mission, called Lucy, will study asteroids, known as Trojan asteroids, trapped by Jupiter’s gravity. The Psyche mission will explore a very large and rare object in the solar system’s asteroid belt that’s made of metal, and scientists believe might be the exposed core of a planet that lost its rocky outer layers from a series of violent collisions. Lucy is targeted for launch in 2021 and Psyche in 2023. Both missions have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun.