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NEAR: The First Discovery Mission

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NEAR: The First Discovery Mission
April 25, 2013

Andrew Cheng, former project scientist for the historic Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, shares the story of the first mission to orbit (and eventually land on) an asteroid.

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