NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is all set to launch tomorrow morning, kicking off its hugely ambitious 12-year journey through the solar system.
The craft is scheduled to blast off at 05:34 ET (10:34 BST) on Saturday on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Over the next dozen years, it will perform fly-bys of the Jupiter trojans, a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun.
The $981