OSIRIS-REx Begins Trip Back to Earth Written 11 May 2021
Artist's rendition of OSIRIS-REx | NASA
Reuters reports that on Monday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began its trip back to Earth after its sample collection mission on asteroid Bennu. The trip “back to Earth will take about two years.” NASA “says samples will be distributed to research laboratories worldwide, but 75% of the samples will be preserved at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for future generations to study with technologies not yet created.”
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