THE $112-MILLION NEAR EARTH

THE $112-MILLION NEAR EARTH Asteroid Rendezvous (Near) spacecraft has been shipped to its launch site at Cape Canaveral to be prepared for launch Feb. 16 on a Delta 2. Near is scheduled to rendezvous in early 1999 with 433 Eros, a large near-Earth asteroid. Near's year-long mission in orbit around...

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