NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to release a 'mini-fridge size capsule' over the Utah desert this week.
— that saw the spacecraft land on the asteroid briefly, collect samples, and then used its on-board thrusters to launch itself off of the rock.
In 2021, after a last flyby around the asteroid, OSIRIS-REx finally started journeying back to Earth. Even after it releases its return capsule over Earth in less than a week, NASA says OSIRIS-REx's job is not quite complete. When it makes its payload delivery, the spacecraft will not stop to land on our planet but will instead veer its path towards
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