Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of NASA's NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft at the asteroid Eros. On Feb. 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on ...

(WHTM) — On February 14, 2000, NASA’s deep exploration satellite NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) entered orbit around the asteroid 443 Eros, becoming the first human-made object to orbit an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched ...

Stunning close-up views of asteroid 433 Eros from the descending NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft get top billing in a new movie from NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous ...

Images of 433 Eros taken from the orbiting NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft: (a), scale bar, lower right, measures 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), crater Shoemaker as viewed from the south; (b), scale bar 1 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — An asteroid’s external features, when analyzed carefully, can say a lot about its interior. So it was while he was mapping the surface of the asteroid 433 […] ...

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NEAR Shoemaker made history on Feb. 12, 2001, when the orbiter became the first spacecraft to land and then operate on the surface of an asteroid. NASA extended the mission until Feb. 28, 2001, so the ...