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The package, rather than coming from FedEx or UPS, is coming from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

On Sept. 24, NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft will try to complete its seven-year journey by dropping an asteroid sample of Bennu to Earth.

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The OSIRIS-REx mission will drop off its cargo, about a cup’s worth of rocks and soil from an asteroid, in the Utah desert on September 24. Here’s how NASA prepared.

An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years across space

The spacecraft will drop off its precious samples of asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023.

Watch NASA's trailer highlighting its remarkable OSIRIS-REx mission that's about to drop off asteroid samples that it collected three years ago.

In his weekly column, Sethu Pradeep writes about ISRO’s Aditya L1, the European Space Agency’s helping hand and NASA’s ambitious asteroid sample mission.

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2023 - A team led by NASA in Utahs West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample - slated to land on Earth in September. A mockup of NASAs OSIRIS-REx (

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- NASA has completed the final major test to prepare for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample - slated to land on Earth