NASA launched the Lucy mission early on Saturday, sending the spacecraft on a 12-year journey to uncover the secrets contained in Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms. nyti.ms/2Z1BM0L
@nytimes @ChuckGrassley announced today that he plans to watch it from his Senate office.
@nytimes A graphic says Lucy "will launch this month," but it's already launched. That's what this whole article is about. @joroulette
@nytimes Interesting! The Jupiter Trojans might be like a resource supermarket as well as a solar system time capsule. Might have everything from volatiles to metals, with low transport delta-v. Wow! Might become the industrial powerhouses of the solar system.
@nytimes Stop wasting our tax money on space exploration. We have urgent problems here on Earth