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NASAs OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample

From NASA via sci.space.science Admin@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 11 09:39:00 2021

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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/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-heads-for-earth-with-asteroid-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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