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On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and begin a nearly three-year journey back to Earth, NASA officials announced this…

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January 30, 2021 11:23 AM
Posted: January 30, 2021 11:23 AM
This illustration shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departing asteroid Bennu to begin its two-year journey back to Earth.
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(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home.
On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and begin a nearly three-year journey back to Earth, NASA officials announced this week.

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