NASA Selects Four Asteroid Landing Sites for Osiris-REX

LANDING SITES FOR OSIRIS-REX   For: Mains Topics covered: NASA selects sample collection sites on Asteroid Bennu OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft Asteroid Bennu   News Flash NASA shortlists four sites for its OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft to collect samples from Asteroid Bennu in mid-2020 and are expected to return to Earth by 2023. The four candidate sample sites on Bennu have been named as Nightingale, Kingfisher, Osprey, and Sandpiper, all names after birds native to Egypt. It landed on…

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