Some of this stuff is just plain cool when you think of it. The progress they’re making in space is fascinating.
Article about why, not a great website though. It is a local paper.
https://www.app.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/23/asteroid-bennu-nasa/70919391007/“ On September 8, 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft into space to collect samples from the asteroid to tell us more about its composition as well as the creation of the solar system.”
“The OSIRIS-REx − an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer − is the United States' first attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid.”
“ The $800 million mission is expected to conclude when an estimated half-pound of rocks from the asteroid will drop by parachute into the Utah Test and Training Range, 80 miles west of Salt Lake City, Sunday morning.”
“NASA will livestream the landing and the samples collected will be sent to a laboratory in Houston for examination.”
A couple live stream links;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B94jEJrRiEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr8_rseKGgs