NASA’s Osiris-Rex On Final Approach To Asteroid Bennu

Credit: NASA
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft has begun the final approach phase of its lengthy, $1 billion mission to return a sample from the 1,600-ft.-long asteroid Bennu, also classified as a Near Earth Object with a potential to collide with the Earth late in the 22nd century. After the spacecraft arrives at...

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