What's New in Lunar & Planetary Science
Launch of the Firefly
Blue Ghost
Mission 1 lunar lander has been
set for a launch window opening no earlier than mid-January 2025.
For more, see the
NASA news release.
The NASA
Lucy
asteroid mission will make its second Earth flyby on 13 December.
- 1546
- Tycho Brahe born.
- 1962
- Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first operating spacecraft to encounter another planet.
- 1972
- Gene Cernan steps off the lunar surface into the Apollo 17 LM to end the final Apollo visit to the Moon.
- 2003
- Nozomi passes by Mars at 1000 km altitude, fails to go into orbit.
- 2013
- Chinese Chang'e 3 spacecraft lands on the Moon, first lander since 1976.
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