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The US made history as the space agency landed rock samples on Earth..
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Sunday dropped samples from asteroid Bennu on Earth from its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft..
"This marks the US's first sample return mission of its kind and will open a time capsule to the beginnings of our solar system," Nasa said in a tweet on Sunday, after the sample capsule landed at the Utah test and training range...
Launched on September 8, 2016, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) travelled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu...
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