Lucy spacecraft’s Trojan journey is only the next step

The NASA Lucy mission will visit Trojan asteroids. Artist rendering. Credit: NASA.

NASA's next asteroid mission, Lucy, will seek the origin story of asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit – and already it's been a long road to the launch pad.

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About Elizabeth Howell

Is SpaceQ's Associate Editor as well as a business and science reporter, researcher and consultant. She recently received her Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota and is communications Instructor instructor at Algonquin College.