Asteroid exploration timeline
- 1991 - NASA's Galileo was able to take close-up images of asteroids
- 1994 - Discovered the first moon to orbit an asteroid
- 2001 - Landed a spacecrafts successfully on Near-Earth Asteroid Eros
- 2006 - Japan's Hayabusa was the first spacecraft to land on and take off from an asteroid
- 2011 - NASA's Dawn mission was the first spacecraft to visit Vesta and Ceres
- 2016 - NASA launched an explorer to the asteroid Bennu
- 2017 - NASA's Discovery Program will launch two new projects: Lucy and Psyche
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