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NASA’s About to Try Grabbing a Chunk of Asteroid to Bring to Earth—and You Can Watch – Singularity Hub
The OSIRIS-REx will spacecraft attempt to pocket a fistful of rock and dust from an asteroid called Bennu then ferry it back to Earth.
If youve seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars in a stripped-down rocket in hopes of his carefully-calculated trajectory taking him just close enough to his crew for them to pluck him from the void of outer space and bring him safely home to Earth. Theres a multitude of complex physics involved, and who knows how true-to-science the scene is, but getting the details right to successfully grab something i…
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