We will likely remove this post this afternoon, since the YouTube feed is only the live NASA-TV channel, and other programming will be on by noonish [or maybe I'll just remove the YouTube video feed below, then -- and put in the animated NASA gif, describing the green objects Lucy will go visit, over the next twelve years!].
Even so, this mission fires my imagination, as it is headed out past Jupiter, to study what Norman Maclean (might have) memorably called "rocks, from the basement of time" -- some four to five billion years, on. . . whoosh. [To be fair, Maclean was talking about rocks deep underwater, at the bottom of the Big Blackfoot river. Grin. . . .]
But for now, you can watch as the giant Atlas rocket (with Lucy stowed atop) lumbers slowly on the gravel, toward the pad. Here it is:
“. . .At the heart of Lucy is the science and how it’s going to talk to us about the Trojans,” Zurbuchen said. “I keep thinking about these millions of pieces out there that we haven’t observed and how it’s so important to go observe them because just like so many of these small worlds, these asteroids that tell us about a chapter of our own story, our own history, in this case, the history perhaps 4 billion years ago or so when the outer planets were forming in the solar system.”
”LSP is excited about the launch of Lucy this Saturday,” Baez said. “Our team is ready, and we look forward to a beautiful launch. . . .”
Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 16, on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. . . .
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