Name: The Lucy Mission: Origins of the Solar System
Uploaded: 2022-01-01
Duration: 53 min 10 s
Description: For two and a half years, we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission, a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System, and shared with them the many challenges they had to overcome, such as a countdown to launch on time, the building of the huge solar arrays or a pandemic.

For two and a half years, we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission, a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System, and shared with them the many challenges they had to overcome, such as a countdown to launch on time, the building of the huge solar arrays or a pandemic.

Follow the scientists and engineers behind NASA's Lucy mission as they prepare to explore Trojan asteroids, objects never before visited by a spacecraft. The film reveals how launch deadlines, massive solar arrays, precision planning, and a pandemic tested the mission at every step. Sign up to see how this high-stakes effort could illuminate the origins of our solar system.

Inside NASA's race to reach the Trojan asteroids before time runs out.

From its inception to its launch, we follow NASA’s Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System.

Inside NASA's race to reach the Trojan asteroids before time runs out.

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