NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft goes for early stow of asteroid sample

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft goes for early stow of asteroid sample

Space Daily

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Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is ready to perform an early stow on Tuesday, Oct. 27, of the large sample it collected last week from the surface of the asteroid Bennu to protect and return as much of the sample as possible. On Oct. 22, the OSIRIS-REx mission team received images that showed the spacecraft's collector head overflowing with material collected from Bennu's surface - well over the

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