NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission: Scooping Up an Asteroid Sample and Preparing for Delivery
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is set to deliver a sample of rocks and soil from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu to the Utah desert on September 24. This marks NASA's first time collecting and returning an asteroid sample from space. The sample, along with a previously returned sample from Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, could provide insights into the formation of our solar system. The mission team has been rehearsing the retrieval process, and if successful, the sample will be sent to laboratories worldwide for analysis.
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