Lucy’s in the sky — with lab-grown diamonds.
NASA on Saturday launched a space probe named Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter’s …
Lucy’s in the sky — with lab-grown diamonds. NASA on Saturday launched a space probe named Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter’s so-called Trojan asteroids and potentially find new clues of how the solar system was created. The uncrewed spacecraft launched at 5:34 AM ET aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, sending it on a roundabout trek that’ll span nearly 4 billion miles. The probe is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor uncovered in Ethiopia nearly a half-century ago. That discovery got its name from the 1967 Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” — which led to the space agency to send the craft soaring into space with the band’s lyrics and other luminaries’ words of wisdom imprinted on a plaque.
