OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reaches Bennu, and it will bring a piece of the asteroid back to Earth
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 06:40
in Astronomy & Space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to scoop up a piece of an asteroid and send it back to Earth is about to rendezvous with its target. After a two-year journey through the solar system, the spacecraft has finally caught up with Bennu, a small, dark space rock that is orbiting the sun about 75 million miles...