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Oct 16, 2020 5 min

OSIRIS-REx makes its first sampling try at the asteroid Bennu

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The University of Arizona-backed OSIRIS-REx mission reaches its biggest moment next week.

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Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta describes the step-by-step process the spacecraft will take as it tries to grab a sample of soil from the asteroid's surface.

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