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Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3 billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks (video)
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...
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An asteroid sample is about to land on Earth. Here’s what to expect - CNN
On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.
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OSIRIS-REx’s Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth
OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—has successfully sent ... (National Geographic, 2019) and Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet (National Geographic ...
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex Brings Bennu Asteroid Sample to Earth - The New York Times
The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.
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A Revolutionary, Low-Cost Asteroid Mission Is Now in Danger From NASA Cutbacks
The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...
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A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US | CNN
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates
OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample return capsule will land in Utah on Sept. 24 at around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). Here's the latest.
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NASA spacecraft returns to Earth with pieces of an asteroid
Scientists working on NASA's $1 billion OSIRIS-REx mission watched anxiously as the capsule came back to Earth, braving temperatures of more than 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit after slamming into the ...
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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth - PBS
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...
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How OSIRIS-REx's capsule could hold keys to 'building blocks of life' on Earth - ABC News
"The OSIRIS-REx sample is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth and will help scientists investigate the origins of life on our own planet for generations to come," NASA ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS mission delivered asteroid samples to Earth
He’s been the project scientist for OSIRIS-REx since NASA accepted the mission proposal in 2011, and has been involved in the mission’s planning since its conception in 2004. “You can change ...
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Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says
First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet's orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team.