[HN Gopher] NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Donaldjoha...
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       NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Donaldjohanson Flyby
        
       Author : taubek
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2025-04-27 16:42 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (science.nasa.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (science.nasa.gov)
        
       | notfish wrote:
       | Wild. I was in my 4th/5th years of college during the pandemic
       | and had an internship writing mission planning tooling for lucy.
       | Felt like either two weeks or ten years, coding on the couch
       | while we were pretty sure the world was ending outside. Bizarre
       | times.
        
       | pfdietz wrote:
       | The cool thing is the asteroid is named after the
       | paleoanthropologist who found the famous "Lucy" fossil.
        
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