The shipping container holding NASA's Lucy spacecraft is unloaded from a United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane, stationed out of Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, on the runway of the Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30, 2021. From there, the Lucy spacecraft will move to the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility in nearby Titusville, Florida, before its scheduled launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 16, 2021. The Lucy mission will be the first space mission to explore a diverse population of small bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. The launch is being managed by NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy, America's multi-user spaceport. (NASA Photo \ Kim Shiflett)
| Date Taken: | 07.30.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 09.28.2021 11:25 |
| Photo ID: | 6860013 |
| VIRIN: | 210730-F-AM806-1001 |
| Resolution: | 2400x1600 |
| Size: | 1.35 MB |
| Location: | KSC, US |
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Reservists give Lucy a ride in the sky with NASA mission
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