NOVA 50x2 - Star Chasers of Senegal

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral ona mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400million miles from Earth thought to hold important clues aboutthe origins of our solar system. Just hours before, inSenegal, West Africa, a team of scientists sets out tocapture extraordinarily precise observations vital to thesuccess of the Lucy mission – crucial data needed to helpNASA navigate Lucy to its asteroid targets across millions ofmiles of space. The team's visionary leader, Senegaleseastronomer Maram Kaire, takes viewers on a journey toinvestigate his nation's rich and deep history of astronomy,reaching back thousands of years – and the promising futureahead.