NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivers long-awaited asteroid sample to Earth
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully released a capsule containing samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's Test and Training Range. Recovery teams quickly retrieved the capsule to minimize contamination risk and will transport it to the NASA Johnson Space Center for future scientific study. The spacecraft will now proceed to its next target, the asteroid Apophis, for a scheduled encounter in 2029.
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