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OSIRIS-REx, American spacecraft that orbited the asteroid Bennu and returned a sample of it to Earth. The roughly 250-gram (9-ounce) sample was the largest extraterrestrial sample returned to Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon and the first asteroid sample collected by an American
Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters—these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.
Earthlings expanded their collective reach into, and knowledge of, the cosmos in 2023, launching mega rockets, traveling billions of miles to bring asteroid samples back to earth and more.
Utah played a key role in one of the biggest space stories of 2023, but it was a year of grand accomplishments and spectacular visuals.
Utah played a key role in one of the biggest space stories of 2023, but it was a year of grand accomplishments and spectacular visuals.