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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky on a 12-year quest to explore a record-setting eight asteroids.

A spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids, seven of them in Jupiters orbit.

A spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids, seven of them in Jupiters orbit.

NASA to launch Lucy probe to investigate Jupiter asteroids

NASA yesterday launched a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore for the first time a group of rocky bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, gathering new insights into the solar system’s formation. The Atlas V rocket responsible for propelling the probe took off from Cape Canaveral at 5:34am. Named after an ancient fossil of a pre-human ancestor, Lucy is to become the first solar-powered spacecraft to venture so far from the sun, to observe more asteroids than any probe ...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASAs Lucy mission, the agencys first to Jupiters Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA)...

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky — with diamonds — on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit.

NASA was set Saturday to launch a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore for the first time a group of rocky bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, gathering new insights into the solar system's formation.

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.