NASA’s Discovery Program, begun in the 1990s and continuing today with missions like Lucy and Psyche, is focused on frequent, cost-effective investigations of our solar system. Its first mission launched in 1996 to near-Earth asteroid Shoemaker; the second mission was the Mars Pathfinder mission, also launched in 1996. On Jan. 6, 1998, the third missionContinue reading “Jan. 6, 1998: Lunar Prospector launches”
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