NASA's Earth-Bound Asteroid Probe Successfully Performs First Course Correction Maneuver
by Passant Rabie from on (#64TYZ)
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has a special package for Earth: rocky samples from one of the most ancient objects in the universe. The probe snagged a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and has been making its way for an Earth drop-off ever since. To keep it on track, NASA recently executed the spacecraft's...