If this project stays on track, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project announced last year by actor Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Lucy will embark on a 12-year mission to explore the "fossils of planet formation," Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms.
The asteroid has a diameter ranging from 72 to 160 metres, making it more prominent than the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
A team of six 'astronauts' has launched a Mars analogue mission in Israel's Negev Desert, hoping to bring new insights for the possible future explorations of the Red Planet.
A new study on Thursday revealed that photos snapped by Perseverance early in its mission, shows how water helped shape the Red Planet's landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life.
The study, which was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, drew on decades of earthshine measurements to illuminate the Moon's surface.
“Indeed, a satisfying feeling," K Radhakrishnan who as the then Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) led the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) team told PTI on the milestone.
The NASA probe has recorded the most significant and longest-lasting quake on Mars, reaching magnitude 4.2 and causing to shake for over an hour and a half.
The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission's four newly minted citizen astronauts successfully splashed down in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Saturday, after a three-day trip by the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.
The tourists were shown watching movies and occasionally heard responding to SpaceX's mission control inside their fully autonomous spacecraft before it began the nail-biting process of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, ANI report stated.
