Twelve years. Eight asteroids. Spacecraft and Payload.
Discovery, Thursday, August 23, 2001, Benson, AZ, 00:00 MST:
Jupiter 8° 26′ Cancer opposite Ceres 8° 49′ Rx Capricorn
Neptune 6° 45′ Rx Aquarius trine Vesta 6° 42′ Gemini
Lucy 24° 43′ Rx Aries
Launch, Saturday, October 16, 2021, Cape Canaveral, FL, 5:34 EDT:
Jupiter 22° 20′ Rx Aquarius bi-quintile Virgo 28° 15′ rising
Neptune 20° 58′ Rx Pisces quincunx Mars 20° 32′ Libra
Uranus 13° 34′ Rx Taurus opposite Vesta 13° 21′ Scorpio
Saturn 6° 54′ Aquarius
Lucy 25° 02′ Capricorn
Image: “After the Lucy Mission ends, the spacecraft will remain on a stable orbit within the Solar System for millions of years. It will carry a time capsule in the form of a plaque with messages from these early days of space exploration. Read the messages at http://lucy.swri.edu/lucy-plaque “ via Twitter, July 12, 2021, 2:37 PM, @ LucyMission.