Nasa capsule brings back the largest asteroid sample ever collected
The capsule carried around 250g of rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission.
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The capsule carried around 250g of rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission.
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years
A mission to bring samples from a distant asteroid back to Earth made history on Sunday with the success of NASA's OSIRIS-Rex.
Nasa's Bennu asteroid sample collection mission has sent a chunk of an enormous space asteroid that may one day collide with Earth, allowing researchers to learn more about the formation of the...
The capsule was quickly secured and transported by helicopter to a temporary clean room set up at a hangar at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and...