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“This mission proves that NASA does big things,” said Bill Nelson, the administrator of the space agency. “Things that inspire us, things that unite us, things that show really nothing is beyond our reach.”
A brown and white spacecraft that swooped across the solar system and stayed on an asteroid for seven years has returned to Earth. And it's brought back a space rock memento that scientists can't wait to study.They watched the pod speed through Earth's atmosphere at thousands of kilometres per hour on Sunday morning with bated breath. At 8:52 a.m. local time, it softly parachuted down onto the moist desert environment of the Utah Test and Training Range, which is located around 80 miles west of Salt Lake City.