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NASA mission will zoom by asteroid before returning sample to Earth – Kent Wired
(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home.
(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.
The spacecraft, formally known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, is carrying a hefty sample it collected from the asteroid’s surface in October. The…
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