Editing NEAR Shoemaker (section)

==Development==
NEAR was the first robotic [[space probe]] built by [[Johns Hopkins University]]'s [[Applied Physics Laboratory]] (APL).<ref name="lawler20020104">{{Cite journal |last=Lawler |first=Andrew |date=2002-01-04 |title=Lab Rivalry Spices Up Solar System Exploration |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.295.5552.33 |journal=Science |language=en |publication-date=2002-01-04 |volume=295 |issue=5552 |pages=33 |doi=10.1126/science.295.5552.33 |pmid=11778023 |s2cid=109108852 |issn=0036-8075 |access-date=2022-11-16|url-access=subscription }}</ref> A previous plan for the mission was for it to go to [[4660 Nereus]] and do a flyby of [[2019 van Albada]] en route.<ref name=ads/> In January 2000, it would rendezvous with Nereus, but instead of staying, it would visit multiple asteroids and comets.<ref name=ads/> Some of the choices that were discussed were [[2P/Encke]], [[433 Eros]] (which became the mission's primary target), [[1036 Ganymed]], [[4 Vesta]], and [[4015 Wilson–Harrington]].<ref name=ads/>
The Small-Body Grand Tour was a plan to visit two asteroids and two comets over a decade with the spacecraft.<ref name=ads>[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993STIA...9581370F Extended-mission opportunities for a Discovery-class asteroid rendezvous mission]</ref>