9.25.2023

Dropping off, going on

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission: Asteroid sample lands on Earth

Back in September 2016, the federal space agency launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a daring mission to snare a batch of rocks from the asteroid Bennu, located about 200 million miles away.…
The rocks were delivered to a desert in Utah yesterday (Sunday). The spacecraft is off again, on new mission already, to visit another asteroid.

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