NEAR Shoemaker
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| Launch date | February 17, 1996 |
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| Cost | 224 million USD |
| Landing date | February 12, 2001 20:01 UTC; (18 years, 10 months and 11 days ago) |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 |
| Rocket | Delta II |
| Manufacturers | Johns Hopkins University |
| Applied Physics Laboratory | |
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| ID | 2263768 |
About NEAR Shoemaker
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.
NEAR Shoemaker Photos
