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NASA asteroid mission Lucy begins spacecraft assembly before 2021 launch – Space.com
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft
is one step closer to getting up close and personal with a host of strange space rocks as assembly begins.
Lucy will make an ambitious journey across the asteroid belt out to Jupiter’s neighborhood, studying a total of eight different space rocks
over nearly a decade. But before the spacecraft can begin its trip at the launchpad, currently scheduled for October 2021, it needs to become, well, a spacecraft. And, thanks to a recent milestone permitting integration of th…
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