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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: First Of Its Kind Asteroid Sample Heading Back To Earth

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A spacecraft NASA launched in 2016 to study a near Earth asteroid has begun its journey home carrying a first of its kind sample. The 'OSIRIS-REx' spacecraft will travel for nearly three hundred million miles to safely bring a sample from an asteroid, in this case Bennu, to NASA and the world to study for decades to come. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Andrea Jones, Planetary Geologist with NASA, about the historic mission and what we may learn from it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Juan Williams and this is the Fox News rundown.

0:19.4

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021.

0:25.0

I'm Eben Brown.

0:27.0

Last year, NASA's Osiris Rec spacecraft collected rocks from an asteroid more than a billion miles away.

0:33.0

Now it's bringing them home to Earth.

0:36.0

Scientists, years from now,

0:38.0

our children and our children's children will be able to investigate the sample

0:42.0

which will enable discoveries

0:44.3

for years to come. This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.

0:48.7

NASA's Osiris Rex, which stands for origin spectral interpretation, resource identification,

0:59.6

security regolith explorer was first launched in 2016. It took years to travel more than a

1:06.3

billion miles to reach and eventually touch the surface of an asteroid, scientists named

1:12.0

Benu, an asteroid

1:13.3

a third of a mile long.

1:15.0

Osiris Rex collected a sample from the surface and now it's fired its rockets

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