Close Flyby of Lucy Spacecraft This Weekend Has NASA on Collision Alert
by Passant Rabie from on (#64R0K)
It's been a year since NASA launched its Lucy spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. On Sunday, Lucy will wave hello to Earth for the first time during a brief, but potentially dangerous, rendezvous. In the unlikely event of a collision, the mission team has prepared maneuvers to protect the...