You’d think grabbing a scoop of dirt off an orbiting space rock and then delivering it back to Earth would be the most complicated part of an asteroid sample collection mission, but the real challenge ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth a total of nine containers of moon ...
NASA has revealed that it has already processed 70.3 grams of rocks and dust collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from asteroid Bennu. That means the mission has way exceeded its goal of bringing 60 ...