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What's New in Lunar & Planetary Science
TheLucyMission will fly by asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on 20 April 2025.
128 new moons have been discovered around Saturn, bringing the total number of natural saturnian satellites to 274. More.....
TheBlue GhostMission 1 ended its mission as planned, about 5 hours after local sunset on 16 March. For more, see the NASA press release.
This Day in Planetary and Lunar Exploration History
1960
Launch of Navy Transit 1B, first navigation satellite and first rocket restart in space.
1970
At 10:06 P.M EST, the no. 2 oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, severely damaging the spacecraft.
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