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Lucy is a robotic space mission developed and managed by NASA. Designed to investigate the Trojan asteroids orbiting Jupiter, the mission aims to shed light on the early history of the Solar System. As the first spacecraft to visit such asteroids, Lucy seeks to provide critical insights into planetary formation processes. Named after the famous hominin fossil “Lucy,” discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, the mission aims to illuminate both biological and cosmic evolutionary processes. Lucy Spacecraft

Mars Pathfinder is the first mission under NASA’s Discovery Program, which followed the “faster, better, cheaper” philosophy. This robotic mission was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars since the Viking program of the 1970s, two decades earlier. The mission, which landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, consisted of two main components: the Pathfinder landing platform, later renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and the wheeled micro-rover Sojourner carried by the platform. Mars Pathfi