NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Racing Back to Earth With a Scoop of Asteroid
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Racing Back to Earth With a Scoop of Asteroid Illustration: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked with collecting rocks and dust from a nearby asteroid named Bennu, is coming back home after almost five years away. The spacecraft, officially named Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, officially fired its engines to begin its Earthward journey on May 10. Its return trip will take two and half years. Advertisement Bennu, the asteroid the spacecraft accosted, is a 1,600-foot-wide...
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