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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, is a robotic space probe designed to study the near-Ear...
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Detailed mission information, images, and links related to the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. ... The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is the first of NASA's Discovery missions and the first mission ever to go into orbit around an asteroid.
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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is the first launch in the Discovery Program, a NASA initiative for small planetary missions with a maximum 3-year development cycle and a cost capped at $150 million for construction, launch, and 30 days of operation.
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Launched on February 17, 1996, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is the first of NASA's Discovery missions, a series of small-scale spacecraft designed to proceed from development to flight in under three years. ... NASA Asteroid Orbiter; Courtesy of NASA ... NEAR took photographs of Comet Hyakutake in March 1996.
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Space Exploration Resources School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University ... JHU APL NEAR Mission Home ... Main Eros Model Approach Analysis Movies Mosaics Image Search Planning Work Pre-Orbit Highlights Field Geology Ongoing Work...
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, Near-Infrared Spectrograph, Applied Physics Laboratory, Magnetic Field Investigation, Discovery Program, Column Pixels, Planetary Data System, Analog Devices, Deep Space Network, Focal Plane Detector, Mars Observer, Microns Figure, Axis Sense Electronics, Brown University,
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Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR): Launched on Feb. 17, 1996 the NEAR spacecraft made successful flybys of asteroid 243 Mathilde on June 27, 1997 and asteroid 433 Eros on December 23, 1998. The spacecraft then returned to asteroid Eros and on February 14, 2000 the spacecraft went int o orbit around Eros.
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A large collection of news stories and images, from Space.com. ... NEAR Collects Data from Asteroid's Surface; Data is being received from NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker spacecraft sitting on the dusty surface of Asteroid 433 Eros.
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker project officials to continue the mission, announcing the decision at a press conference here at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
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