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Lucy Explores Three Asteroids for the Price of One

Weather Looks Favorable for Before-Dawn Saturday Launch of Lucy Mission

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Prepares for First-Ever Four-Billion Mile Journey to Trojan Asteroids

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Long Journey Home with First-Ever Asteroid Sample from Bennu

All Systems Go for OSIRIS-REx Departure from Asteroid Bennu and Historic Sample Return to Earth

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OSIRIS-REx’s ‘Cup Runneth Over’ with Overflowing Asteroid Samples

by Paul Scott Anderson October 25, 2020, 9:15 pm
Success! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ‘Touches’ Asteroid Bennu, Gathers Samples for Return to Earth in 2023

by Paul Scott Anderson October 21, 2020, 6:10 am
OSIRIS-Rex Prepares to Land on Asteroid Bennu October 20

by Paul Scott Anderson October 14, 2020, 7:54 pm
NASA’s Lucy Mission On Track for 2021 Launch

by Ben Evans August 6, 2020, 8:00 am
NASA’s Psyche Mission to Metal Asteroid Enters Final Design Phase

by Paul Scott Anderson June 14, 2019, 8:48 am
OSIRIS-REx Finds Plumes and Other Surprises on Asteroid Bennu

by Paul Scott Anderson March 19, 2019, 9:28 pm
New Horizons’ Data of Pluto/Charon Show Rarity of Small Kuiper Belt Objects

by Paul Scott Anderson March 4, 2019, 7:46 pm
New Horizons’ Historic Flyby of Ultima Thule Reveals ‘Entirely New Kind of World’

by Paul Scott Anderson January 2, 2019, 6:55 pm
New Horizons Approaching Historic Flyby of Ultima Thule, 4 Billion Miles Away

by Paul Scott Anderson December 10, 2018, 6:18 pm
NASA’s Lucy Mission to the Trojans Is a GO!

by Paul Scott Anderson November 7, 2018, 7:43 pm
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft to Search for Trojan Asteroids Near Earth

by Paul Scott Anderson February 6, 2017, 8:28 pm
Lucy and Psyche: NASA Selects Two New Asteroid Missions for Launch in 2020s

by Paul Scott Anderson January 5, 2017, 8:00 am

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