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Default NASAs OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample

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NASAs OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample

Posted: 10 May 2021 12:22 PM PDT
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na...steroid-sample

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation,
Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)
spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust
from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
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http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...?itok=4g6Mhu-9