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NASA Snatched Some Asteroid

Bennu
Bennu Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin

The OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, which has been hanging around the asteroid Bennu since late 2018, finally mustered up the courage to scoop some samples this October. Despite a bit of a jammed lid situation, the spacecraft is on track to deliver these bits of asteroid to Earth in 2023.