OSIRIS-REx is About to Meet an Asteroid

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By Chelsea Gohd
Dec 3, 2018 4:46 PMOct 15, 2019 2:35 PM
OSIRIS-Rex at Bennu
A visualization of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft above the asteroid Bennu. The craft will arrive at the asteroid today, Dec. 3, 2018. (Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the space agency’s first craft to bring samples from an asteroid back to Earth, is set to rendezvous with its target, Bennu, at around noon EST today.

special webcast is scheduled for just before the spacecraft reaches Bennu, at 11:45 a.m. EST. During this webcast, NASA officials and scientists will discuss the mission in depth.

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