NASA Spacecraft Ready to Head Back to Earth with a Piece of an Asteroid

With all the nasty things happening on our home world, we kind of lost track of an extraordinary mission taking place in space, more than 205 million miles (330 million km) away from Earth: OSIRIS-Rex, the small spacecraft sent back in 2018 to collect a sample from an asteroid, finally managed to stow the precious cargo inside its belly. OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Exp...