Lucy Engineering Briefing

An engineering briefing for the Lucy mission is held inside the TV Auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 14, 2021. Participants included, from left to right, Nancy Jones, NASA Communications; Joan Salute, Planetary Science Division Associate Director, Flight Programs, NASA HQ; Katie Oakman, Lucy Structures and Mechanisms Lead, Lockheed Martin Space; Jessica Lounsbury, Lucy Project Systems Engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; and Coralie Adam, Deputy Navigation Team Chief, KinetX Aerospace. Lucy is scheduled to launch at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, is managing the launch. Lucy is the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, which hold vital clues to the formation of our solar system.