NASA's first major asteroid sample recovery rehearsal for its OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer) mission, at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, on June 27, 2023. OSIRIS-REx is the first US mission to capture a sample from the surface of an asteroid. The delivery from asteroid Bennu will arrive on September 24, 2023, and is expected to help researchers study the origins of organics and water that could have led to life on Earth.

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