NEAR Shoemaker
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker, renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied P
Launch of NEAR, February 1996
One of the images from the flyby of 253 Mathilde
Near-Earth asteroid Eros as seen from the NEAR spacecraft.
Trajectory graphic depicting the voyage of the NEAR spacecraft
Discovery Program
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The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration through its Planetary Missions Program Office. The cost of each
NEAR Shoemaker
…16 Mbit IBM Luna-C DRAMs. One recorder has 1.1 gigabits of storage, and the other has 0.67 gigabits. The NEAR mission was the first launch of NASA's Discovery Program, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years for a cost of less than $150 million. The…
Depictions of the Lucy and Psyche missions
Asteroid Eros regolith, as viewed by Discovery's NEAR Shoemaker mission
Mars Pathfinder's view of Ares Vallis