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New US Postage Stamp Commemorates NASA’s Asteroid Sample Delivery

'Forever' Stamp Depicts Parachute Landing in Utah

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Tom Patton
Sep 26, 2023
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Courtesy U.S. Postal Service

Postage stamps bookmark some of history’s brightest moments. Arctic explorations, the first Moon landing, and the signing of the Bill of Rights all appear on commemorative stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service. And now, OSIRIS-REx – the first U.S. mission to return a sample collected from an asteroid – will get its own sta…

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