Nasa asteroid watch october 2019
16, 2021 from pad 41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL. 29, 2021 at Astrotech Space Operations Center, Titusville, FL.
Ken Kremer of Space UpClose visiting NASA Lucy asteroid explorer spacecraft as seen on Sept. 6 edition of the ‘Stay Curious’ space show from the American Space Museum including many of my cleanroom photos – see video below. You can watch my new prelaunch presentation about the Lucy mission on the Oct. I was very fortunate and grateful to visit Lucy representing Space UpClose as only a very limited number of media were allowed by NASA into the Astrotech cleanroom. Lucy was positioned between the two payload fairing halves atop the upper stage payload adapter and ready for encapsulation by technicians and sealing the nose cone tightly shut. To keep Lucy safe and prevent contamination we all wore ‘bunny suits’ and snood masks and gloves taped to our suits Up close look at NASA Lucy asteroid explorer spacecraft positioned between the two payload fairing halves of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as seen on Sept. 29 in the clean room at the Astrotech Space Operation payload processing facility in Titusville located about a dozen miles from the launch pad nearby the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. on Oct 16 and the overall launch window last just over three weeks.Ĭheck out my up-close photos herein of NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer taken during my media visit Sept. The launch opportunity runs until 6:49 a.m. 16, 2021, just before sunrise on a ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
NASA’s Lucy is an ambitious probe unprecedented scope utilizing a ‘once-in-a-lifetime planetary launch window’ that will explore seven pristine Trojan asteroids orbiting ahead of and behind Planet Jupiter at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points and one main belt asteroid during a mission spanning 12 years. Credit: Ken Kremer//ĪSTROTECH SPACE OPERATIONS, TITIUSVILLE, FL – NASA’s first ever mission to explore the Trojan asteroids named Lucy is in final preparations for launch in one week on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida’s Space Coast aiming to explore fossilized remnants leftover from the birth of our Solar System some 4.5 Billion years ago sharing Jupiter’s orbit. NASA Lucy asteroid explorer spacecraft positioned between the two payload fairing halves of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as seen on Sept.