"NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission: Double the Asteroid Rubble Haul"

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"NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission: Double the Asteroid Rubble Haul"
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NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft successfully returned 121.6 grams of dust and pebbles from asteroid Bennu, double the intended amount. The samples, the first ever collected from an asteroid by NASA, are stored at a special curation lab in Houston. Despite some rocks jamming the sample container, the spacecraft is now on its way to another space rock for a flyby with no stop for samples.

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