On #ThisDayInHistory in 2001, the #NEARShoemaker spacecraft settled onto #433Eros, becoming the first human craft to land on an #asteroid as well as the first to enter orbit around one. Eros is a peanut-shaped, ten-mile-wide, rocky, near-Earth asteroid in orbit between us & Mars.

25 Years Ago Today NEAR - Shoemaker Touched Down on 433 Eros after successfully orbiting the asteroid, two firsts in space pioneering history.

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