Since its launch in September 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has traveled billions of miles, mapped the surface of an asteroid in unprecedented detail, and made new scientific discoveries about near-Earth asteroids. Now, it’s preparing to bring a piece of asteroid Bennu home.
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https://phys.org/news/2021-01-osiris-rex-mission-asteroid-departure.html