NEAR Shoemaker - Wikipedia
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe …
NEAR Shoemaker - Science@NASA
Nov 2, 2024 · What was NEAR Shoemaker? NASA’s NEAR was the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and also was the first to land on one. NEAR’s landing on Eros marked the first time a …
NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details
May 1, 2015 · The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed in honor of Gene Shoemaker, was designed to study the near Earth asteroid Eros from close …
NEAR Shoemaker's Historic Landing on Eros Exceeds Science, …
Feb 14, 2001 · The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft's historic soft landing on asteroid 433 Eros Feb. 12 turned out to be a mission planner's dream - providing NEAR team members with more …
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker - Encyclopedia Britannica
Feb 14, 2000 · Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), first spacecraft to orbit and then land on an asteroid (Eros, a near-Earth asteroid, on Feb. 12, 2001). A false …
NEAR Shoemaker Stories - NASA Science
Nov 2, 2024 · NASA granted the NEAR Shoemaker mission a last-minute reprieve Wednesday, extending the mission by up to ten days to give scientists time to capitalize on a surprisingly …
NEAR Landing Left a Lasting Space Exploration Legacy
On Feb. 12, 2001, a carefully designed series of maneuvers brought the APL-built NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft to the surface of 433 Eros — the first-ever landing on an asteroid. The …
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shomaker - Imagine the Universe!
Feb 6, 2014 · The primary science goals of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shomaker mission, called NEAR Shoemaker for short, were to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from …
NEAR Information - NSSDCA
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. The spacecraft is equipped with …
Near Shoemaker - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
NEAR Shoemaker was the first spacecraft to orbit around an asteroid, the first to land on an asteroid and the first solar powered spacecraft to travel beyond the orbit of Planet Mars.