NEAR Shoemaker
Space probe
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker, renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the... Wikipedia
Launch date: February 17, 1996
Cost: 224 million USD
Manufacturers: Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University
Dry mass: 487 kilograms (1,074 lb)
Launch mass: 805 kg
Mission duration: 5 years, 21 days