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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft slingshots past Earth

Submit on Monday, September 25th, 2017 22:55

NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth’s gravity to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August.

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