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Moment NASA spacecraft touches down on asteroid revealed – 7NEWS.com.au
The spacecraft collected a handful of cosmic rubble for return to Earth.
A NASA spacecraft that descended to an asteroid and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble.
As seen in the video above, the historic moment was caught on the spacecrafts camera.
It is a first for the United States – only Japan has collected asteroid samples.
I cant believe we actually pulled this off, said lead scientist Dante Lauretta, from the University of Arizona, on Tuesday.
The spacecraft did everything it was supposed…
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