Dawn’s Smooth Move
August 17, 2011
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft doesn’t do things like other missions. In July it slipped into orbit around asteroid Vesta using a smooth move that made mission planners want to get up and dance. credit: NASA
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Unmanned spacecraft, Astronomy, Planetary science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Technology Internet, Discovery and exploration of the Solar System, NASA, 4 Vesta, Space exploration, Discovery program, Dawn, Ceres, Asteroids