48K views · 4.9K reactions | Our NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission successfully performed its final practice run to sample asteroid Bennu. The four-hour “Matchpoint” rehearsal set us up for the big day – Oct. 20 – when the spacecraft will collect soil from the asteroid and bring it back to Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/3alYZMl | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

Cosmoknowledge - NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission unfurled its robotic arm Oct. 20, 2020, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023. This well-preserved, ancient asteroid, known as Bennu, is currently more than 200 million miles (321 million kilometers) from Earth. Bennu offers scientists a window into the early solar system as it was first taking shape billions of years ago and flinging ingredients that c

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