Scientists, engineers and other employees of Lockheed Martin Space, NASA and the University of Arizona cheered and did coronavirus-era elbow bumps Tuesday when a spacecraft collecting the first-ever sample from an asteroid successfully carried out the maneuver. The mission is part of NASA’s ongoing effort to understand more about how the solar system was formed, how life began and what resources might be available for longer trips in space. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, designed and built by Lockheed Martin at its Waterton campus in Jefferson County, will get ready for its journey back to Earth with an arrival date of September 2023. “This could not have gone any better.