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The Lucy Mission will fly by asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on 20 April 2025.

128 new moons have been discovered around Saturn, bringing the total number of natural saturnian satellites to 274. More.....

The Blue Ghost Mission 1 ended its mission as planned, about 5 hours after local sunset on 16 March. For more, see the NASA press release.

This Day in Planetary and Lunar Exploration History

1959
The seven Project Mercury astronauts report for duty and begin training.
2002
Last telemetry received from Pioneer 10, weak signals detected for another 9 months.

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