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The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert in Utah. A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring back merely atoms and molecules or a deposit of complex compounds ...
It was the first sample return mission of its kind. En route to Comet Wild 2, it also flew by and studied the asteroid 5535 Annefrank. The primary mission was successfully completed on 15 January 2006 when the sample return capsule returned to Earth. [10]
OSIRIS-REx surveyed the asteroid in its entirety to determine the best location to collect a sample. Bennu, a rubble-pile asteroid shaped like a spinning top, is about one-third of a mile (500 ...
It is the US space agency’s first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, and is the largest asteroid sample ever returned to Earth. ... and water that may have led to life on Earth ...
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample ...
Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.
The US space agency NASA brought home the largest asteroid sample ever returned to Earth on Sunday, 24 September. The capsule landed in a training range near Salt Lake City in Utah at around 3 ...
First deep space photographs of another planet and first flyby of Mars December 15 Italy: San Marco 1: Scout X-4: Earth Success: First Italian satellite (on American rocket) 1965 February 2 US: Ranger 8: Atlas-Agena: Moon Success: Lunar impactor. Returned pictures until impact. February 20 US: Ranger 9: Atlas-Agena: Moon Success: Lunar impactor.