NASA’s asteroid probe will be headed home soon with precious cargo on board – BGR

• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu for many months now.
• The spacecraft successfully gathered samples from the massive asteroid and will return that material to Earth so scientists can study it.
• NASA just announced its timeframe for departing from the asteroid.

Despite a global pandemic dramatically changing the daily lives of, well, just about everyone, NASA had an extremely busy year in 2020. One of the ongoing missions that NASA had to continue to…

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