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NASA Is Set To Touch Down On An Asteroid For The First Time – WVXU
A NASA mission begun in 2016 is finally about to reach its goal: touching down on an asteroid.
A NASA mission begun in 2016 is finally about to reach its goal: touching down on an asteroid.
On Tuesday, the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will attempt to collect a sample from an asteroid called Bennu. This is NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission.
“It’s a pretty bold mission,” says Dean Regas, Cincinnati Observatory astronomer and host of the Looking Up podcast. “This is sending a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid where it will touch down and collect some samples and then fly all the wa…
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