NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu’s surface. This week, the OSIRIS-REx mission conducted a second rehearsal of its touchdown sequence, practicing the sample collection activities one last time before touching down on Bennu this fall.
On Aug. 11, the mission performed its “Matchpoin…
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