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Watch live today: NASA Lucy asteroid mission launching on Atlas V

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch NASA's Lucy asteroid mission on a grand tour of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 5:34 a.m. EDT (0934 GMT).  Live webcast begins at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT). Read more. 

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.

Watch live Saturday: Atlas V rocket to launch NASA Lucy asteroid mission

By Space.com Staff

NASA's Lucy mission will launch on Saturday to explore the Trojan asteroids. Watch live today as scientists and engineers explain the mission.

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The 24th Annual International Mars Society Convention begins Thursday (Oct. 17), and you can watch the whole thing online for free.

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NASA's Lucy asteroid mission has good weather for Saturday launch. Here's how to watch live.

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NASA's newest planetary science mission, an asteroid-observing probe named Lucy that will fly by a record eight different asteroids, is ready to launch and you can watch the action live online.

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    Watch live Saturday: Atlas V rocket to launch NASA Lucy asteroid mission
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    This Monopoly: Star Wars Complete Saga Edition is a 37% off at Amazon right now
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    Live this week: Watch the 2021 International Mars Society Convention online
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    NASA's Lucy asteroid mission has good weather for Saturday launch. Here's how to watch live.

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The fairing enclosing the Lucy spacecraft as seen at the tip of a ULA Atlas V rocket on Oct. 14, 2021, two days before its first launch opportunity.

NASA's Lucy asteroid mission has good weather for Saturday launch. Here's how to watch live.

By Amy Thompson

NASA's newest planetary science mission, an asteroid-observing probe named Lucy that will fly by a record eight different asteroids, is ready to launch and you can watch the action live online.

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Artist's depictions of tThe eight asteroids that NASA's Lucy mission will visit.

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Perseverance rover confirms existence of ancient Mars lake and river delta

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Artist's illustration of a Mars with Earth-like surface water. The Red Planet was a wet world in the ancient past.

Mars was always too small to hold onto its oceans, rivers and lakes

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Mars was doomed to desiccation by its small size, a new study suggests.

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Astrophotographer Jeff Berkes snapped this amazing photo of an Orionid meteor streaking above a lake in Elverson, Pa., on Oct. 22, 2011, during the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower.

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The Orionid meteor shower is peaks in the early morning of Wednesday, Oct. 20, but a bright full moon will disrupt viewing until shortly before dawn.

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These Opticron Adventurer II WP 10x50 binoculars have large objectives lenses, 10x magnification, and high quality optics to provide excellent views of the heavens

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NASA Lucy mission-inspired crochet spacecraft

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Space Chat! William Shatner's emotional spaceflight, China's space station flight and incredible new science

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