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Inside OSIRIS-REx’s Mission to Tag Asteroid Bennu

Learn more about OSIRIS-REx’s mission to an asteroid 200 million miles away.

Publish Date: 11/3/20Topic: Space + FlightSpace & FlightNova

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By Ana Aceves

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched and collected a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu—without a human at the controls.

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