Launched NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft toward near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. It became the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, in 2000, and the first to land on one, touching down on Eros in February 2001.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 805 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Delta II 7925-8 flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1996, 20:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-8
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1996-008
- Launches in 1996
- 9th of 77
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