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Spacecraft set for cautious soft landing on asteroid Eros
Space mission controllers aim for a first ever soft landing on the asteroid Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker craft. If successful, the 1100 pound robot would touch down, keep its antenna pointed to Earth, and possibly transmit a beacon for months.
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Washington
Eros
Earth
Robert Farquhar
NEAR
Ed Weiler
NASA
Farquhar
Mars
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Space Center