Lucy Spacecraft Successfully Flies Past Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson and has phoned home confirming its good health. Closest approach occurred at 1:51 pm EDT on Sunday. The spacecraft is now transmitting collected data, a process expected to take up to a week. This data will help scientists better understand this relatively young asteroid and prepare for the mission's primary objective: observing Jupiter's Trojan asteroids starting in 2027.