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NEAR Shoemaker

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NEAR Shoemaker Eros descent

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NEAR Shoemaker -A KSP Recreation

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First spacecraft to land on an Asteroid | NEAR Shoemaker | 433 Eros | Space Video | #Kids #Science

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scientific data - NEAR Shoemaker mission data

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NEAR Shoemaker Earth Departure Movie

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker, renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The mission succeeded in closing in with the asteroid and orbited it several times, finally terminating by touching down on the asteroid on 12 February 2001.
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