Asteroid Day Returns To Celebrate 25 Years Of Dedicated Asteroid Missions
Asteroid Day Returns To Celebrate 25 Years Of Dedicated Asteroid Missions News provided by Share this article Share this article LUXEMBOURG, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Asteroid Foundation's annual Asteroid Day will return on 30 June. The theme for this year will be the 25th launch anniversary of NASA's NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft, and the 2021 launch of three new asteroid missions, NASA's Lucy, NEA Scout and DART – the world's first mission to test an asteroid deflection technique. On 17 February 1996, NASA launched the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)-Shoemaker mission. It was the f...
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