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Victoria Thiem, system safety engineer at Lockheed Martin, checks the temperature of the actual size Osiris-Rex return capsule sample during the recovery rehearsal at Lockheed Martin, Waterton Canyon campus in Littleton, Colorado on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
ASTEROID

NASA readies for dramatic return of asteroid sample to Earth

Four years after its 2016 launch, the probe landed on the asteroid Bennu and collected roughly 250 grams of dust from its rocky surface

  • Lucie Auborg
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