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How to watch NASA bring home a piece of asteroid on Monday – Digital Trends
OSIRIS-REx is the first NASA craft to visit an asteroid and collected a sample. This week, it will begin its journey home to Earth, and you can watch it live.
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently visited an asteroid and collected a sample, making it the first NASA craft to do so. This week, OSIRIS-REx will begin its journey home to Earth, and NASA will be livestreaming the event with information about the mission and about what we can hope to learn by bringing a sample of an asteroid here to study.
What will happen on Monday
OSIRIS-REx is currently in orbit around asteroid Bennu, where it has been located since 2018. Now, the spacecraft must fire its…
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