Apr 2, 2015
NASA’s designed 1st spacecraft to collect retrieve pristine samples of asteroid, return to Earth
NASA’s designed 1st spacecraft to collect retrieve pristine samples of asteroid, return to Earth
NEW YORK: OSIRIS-Rex, NASA’s first ever spacecraft designed to collect and retrieve pristine samples of an asteroid for return to Earth has entered its final assembly phase. Approximately 17 months from now, OSIRIS-REx is slated to launch in the fall of 2016 and visit asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid and was selected for the sample return mission because it…
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