For those that don't follow NASA and I don't think the media bothered with this at all, here's a NASA probe, OSIRIS-REx. playing tag with asteroid Bennu. In other words, it landed, got a sample and took off again.
NASA Playing tag
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bigredfish
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alastairstevenson
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Quite well covered on the BBC, on the lead-up as well.
The video in this item is pretty amazing :
Osiris-Rex: Nasa asteroid mission confident of success
The first images are released of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft trying to grab rock from asteroid Bennu.
www.bbc.co.uk
I'm glad someone covered this. It's a pretty big accomplishment. Now the wait for OSIRIS-REx to get back here and land safely so the regolith can be analyzed.
alastairstevenson
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Too much of an interesting thing ?
Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected so much rock from asteroid Bennu that bits are leaking out.
www.bbc.co.uk
I just got done reading that on FNC. A little too successful I guess. Hope they get the pickup tool emptied into the container real soon.
they should have a lab set up at the space station for this, with these little search droids bringing in samples for them. - probably in the works soon.