How NASA has prepared to scoop up an asteroid sample landing in the desert
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.
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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
OSIRIS-REx is just one of many sample-return missions, past, present and future, that allow scientists to study spacerocks on Earth.
NASA is preparing to nab its first-ever asteroid sample as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft drops a capsule containing fragments of the potentially hazardous object…
A team led by NASA in Utah’s 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.