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Detailed explanation-1: -OSIRIS-REx launched on Sept. 8, 2016, at 7:05 p.m. EDT. As planned, the spacecraft reached its asteroid target in 2018 and will return a sample to Earth in 2023.
Detailed explanation-2: -NASA’s first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on Sept. 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course correction keeps the vehicle on track to deliver a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, completing a seven-year mission.
Detailed explanation-3: -The OSIRIS-REx team found a surface littered with boulders instead of the smooth, sandy beach they expected based on observations from Earth-and space-based telescopes. Scientists also discovered that Bennu was spitting particles of rock into space.
Detailed explanation-4: -The final five-and-a-half minutes of images leading up to the DART spacecraft’s intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos.