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Today you learn about NASA's first asteroid sampling spacecraft and why it's about to make history.

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A NASA spacecraft is on a rendezvous with history. The Osiris Rex spacecraft is on final

approach to an asteroid for a December 3rd arrival.

Once Osiris Rex arrives, it'll spend 18 months preparing to land so it can pick up a sample

to send back to Earth.

And I'm going to tell you why that's a big deal.

Because it has one of those giant space slugs, like the one on the asteroid the millennium

Falcon flies into and the Empire Strikes Back.

I mean, we can only hope, right?

That'd be so cool.

So Osiris Rex stands for origins spectral interpretation, resource identification, security, regolith

Explorer. But we'll stick with Osiris Rex for obvious reasons. So a spacecraft is about to pick up samples of an

asteroid called Benu. Who cares? Well you can think of asteroids as time capsules.

Billions of years ago the solar system used to be full of asteroids in media. capsules. into each other and gradually formed planets and

moons and dwarf planets.

We examine asteroids to learn more about the ancient history of the

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