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On this day in 2001 – February 12th – NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft landed on the asteroid 433 Eros.

NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker was the first spacecraft ever to make a soft landing on an asteroid.


Mona Evans
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