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A Nasa-led spacecraft declared touchdown 200 million miles away, as it scooped up cosmic dust from a potentially hazardous asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx made a Touch-And-Go trip to the asteroid Bennu, collecting a small sample of dust and gravel. Ground controllers in Denver directed the spacecraft’s robotic arm to complete the risky procedure which took four and a half hours. The material plans to be returned back to Earth in 2023 and scientists hope it will help them find out how our solar system was formed.
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