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- NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu for many months now.
- The spacecraft successfully gathered samples from the massive asteroid and will return that material to Earth so scientists can study it.
- NASA just announced its timeframe for departing from the asteroid.
Despite a global pandemic dramatically changing the daily lives of, well, just about everyone, NASA had an extremely busy year in 2020. One of the ongoing missions that NASA had to continue to work on was the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe, which has been in orbit around the massive space rock called Bennu for well over a year now. The mission included a sample-collection maneuver, and with much of its hardest work out of the way, NASA is now ready to talk about when the probe will head back to Earth.
In a new blog post on its website, NASA reveals that it's planning on directing the probe to begin its journey back to Earth on May 10th, 2021. However, it will be quite some time before we see the fruits of its labor.
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