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OSIRIS-REX: NASA’s $1 billion mission
On September 8, NASA will launch its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft into space. The spacecraft will spend the next two years catching up with asteroid Bennu. "The asteroid, little altered over time ...
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NASA will preserve asteroid samples from OSIRIS-Rex for centuries to come so that scientists not even born yet can study them
In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Now, the historic mission is coming to an end seven years later. The sample capsule from OSIRIS-REx ...
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Students stumble upon new black hole in NASA asteroid probe data
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spent the majority of its life studying the near ...