NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after spacecraft release

NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after spacecraft release

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ViewNASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set...

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