NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission: From Asteroid Sample Collection to Earth Delivery
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NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, which has traveled 4.4 billion miles over the past seven years, is set to release a capsule containing a sample of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu from 63,000 miles above the planet. The capsule will aim to land in the military's Utah Test and Training Range, where it will be airlifted to a clean room for analysis. If successful, this will be the first U.S. mission to return an asteroid sample, providing valuable insights into the origins of life and the evolution of the solar system.
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