
The shipping container holding NASA's Lucy spacecraft arrives at Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida on July 30, 2021. The facility, located near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, is where the Lucy spacecraft will undergo processing before its scheduled launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 16, 2021. The Lucy mission will be the first space mission to explore a diverse population of small bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. The launch is being managed by NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy, America's premier multi-user spaceport.
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KSC-20210730-PH-KLS01_0170
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July 30, 2021
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NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Astrotech
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