- It was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
- It is the beginning of a 12-year mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
- The Lucy spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
- The name Lucy to the spacecraft is named after the fossilized human skeleton which was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
- NASA’s Lucy mission will be the first mission to explore the Trojans.
- It will take its journey to eight different asteroids, a main-belt asteroid, and seven Jupiter trojans.
- Static Part:
- HQ of NASA: Washington DC, USA
- Administrator of NASA: Bill Nelson
Question:
a. China National Space Administration
b. European Space Agency
c. Russian Federal Space Agency
d. National Aeronautics and Space Administration