An artist’s impression of the multiple spacecraft in the European Space Agency’s Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), one of several projects set to visit and study the near-Earth asteroid Apophis in 2029. Discovered in 2004 while traveling on an alarming potential collision course with our planet, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis is now better known as the best example yet of our world dodging a cosmic bullet. Apophis is set to pass within 32,000 kilometers of Earth on April 13, 2029, swooping below the altitude of geostationary satellites. Back in 2020, at the inaugural workshop dedicated to the encounter, no formal plans existed to study Apophis during this encounter. Its preliminary survey will help inform the next visitor, ESA’s Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses); DESTINY+ will then head onward for Phaethon.