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NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully collected bits of an orbiting asteroid

NASA made history on Tuesday afternoon as its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully tagged the asteroid, 101955 Bennu, and in doing so collected a small sample of regolith from the passing celestial bodys surface. This marks the first time that a NAS...

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