After collecting a sample of an asteroid nearly three years ago, NASA's OSIRIS-REx is set to return precious space dust to Earth this weekend.
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After spending over seven years in space and traveling nearly 4 billion miles, a capsule containing precious asteroid samples will return to Earth on Sunday. – which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer – launched in 2016 to conduct the agency's first mission to gather material from an asteroid in space.
"It's like putting a dart board at the one end of a basketball court and throwing the dart from the other end and getting a bull's-eye," OSIRIS-REx Deputy Project Manager Michael Moreau,WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HERE The yearslong mission will help scientists investigate how planets are formed, give insights into how life began and improve NASA's understanding of asteroids that could come into contact with Earth. The sample will"give generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago,"The mission will also provide information that could help protect Earth from a possible collision with Bennu.
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