Nasa Osiris Rex

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  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Safely Tucks Bennu Asteroid Samples for Return to Earth

  NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx tucked over 1kg of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday.

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  NASA Prepares OSIRIS-REx to Safely Store Leaking Asteroid Samples

  NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is set to begin a new mission to store the particles it scooped up from the asteroid Bennu’s surface which were slowly leaking into space because a flap got wedged open.

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  NASA Working to Prevent Losing Too Much of OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

  NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week -- but so much that it was leaking.

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  Nasa's Osiris-Rex Spacecraft Takes Off on 7-Year Mission to Asteroid Bennu

  "We are going to map this brand-new world that we have never seen before."

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  Nasa's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Probe May Find Clues to Origins of Life on Earth

  Osiris-Rex is headed to a 1,640-foot (500-meter) wide asteroid named Bennu, which circles the sun in roughly the same orbit as Earth.

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  Nasa Says Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft in Key Testing Phase

  Osiris-Rex is scheduled to launch in September and travel to the asteroid Bennu to collect a sample and return it to Earth for study.

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  Nasa's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission Passes Critical Milestone to Launch

  The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer is officially authorised to transition into its next phase.