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Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Astralopithicus Fossil and the Lully Spacecraft

The trojan asteroids will be in flight for 12 years, but that's nothing compared to the millions of years that the spacecraft could go on. And also, it's nice to look back to the astralopithicus fossil lucy, that was millions of years ago as and so we're spanning millions of years in either direction. But, you know, millions of years is a long time. En, i really like thinking about te long term tho those aeons that you're talking about, right? I think it takes a long time to explore.

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