NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Successfully Navigates First Asteroid Encounter on its Epic Journey Towards Jupiter
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft embarked on its journey to Jupiter and encountered the first of 10 asteroids on Wednesday. The spacecraft swiftly passed by the pint-sized Dinkinesh, located 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. The encounter was described as “a quick hello” by …