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The space craft landed , collected a sample, fired its thrusters, and backed away from Bennu.
OSIRIS-REx launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Sept. 8, 2016. It arrived at Bennu Dec. 3, 2018, and began orbiting the asteroid for the first time on Dec. 31, 2018. The spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth Sept. 24, 2023, when it will parachute the SRC into Utah's west desert where scientists will be waiting to collect it.
On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a dramatic drop-off of an asteroid sample over an earthly desert.
The asteroid is known as Bennu.
NASA aired a live footage of the sample's descent into our atmosphere, and its impact on the Utah desert.
The spacecraft has now left Earth behind and is speeding off toward its next target asteroid: infamous asteroid Apophis. Exciting mission!
NASA has many more asteroid projects planned. Set to launch in October, a spacecraft named Lucy will fly past asteroids orbiting near Jupiter. In November, a spacecraft called Dart will try to redirect an asteroid as part of a planetary protection test. In 2022, the Psyche spacecraft will take off for an odd, metallic asteroid also named Psyche. None of these missions, however, involve sample return.
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