Lucy's wild ride to Jupiter's orbit… but not to Jupiter

In a little less than a month, NASA will launch an ambitious mission through the asteroid belt and out to Jupiter’s orbit. The spacecraft won’t be visiting Jupiter, though: It will fly by several asteroids that share an orbit with the giant planet, looking to investigate these fossils from the solar system’s early days.

This mission is pretty cool, but the flight it’ll take to get where it’s going is just nuts.

This mission is called Lucy, named after the skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis...