Connecting the past to present 🪨🦴 “Lucy helped us understand how humans got to be human. What knowledge can be gained from the Trojan asteroids to understand how our solar system came to be?” From an ancient fossil to a NASA mission, Lucy continues to inspire the quest to better understand our origins. Lucy’s flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson will be the first time NASA sends a spacecraft to a planetary body named after a living person. In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered th
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Connecting the past to present 🪨🦴 “Lucy helped us understand how humans got to be human. What knowledge can be gained from the Trojan asteroids to understand how our solar system came to be?” From an ancient fossil to a NASA mission, Lucy continues to inspire the quest to better understand our origins. Lucy’s flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson will be the first time NASA sends a spacecraft to a planetary body named after a living person. In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered th
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