https://spacewatch.global/tag/marshall-space-flight-center/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:00:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/marshall-space-flight-center/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2021/10/lucy-mission-launches-to-fossils-of-planet-formation/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:00:19 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=36522 NASA’s Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids successfully launched on Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41. Over the next 12 years, Lucy will fly by one main-belt, and seven Trojan asteroids. The spacecraft will investigate “fossils” of planetary formation.]]>