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- OSIRIS-REx - NASA ScienceOSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. It returned to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, to drop off material from asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft didn't land, but continued on to a new mission, OSIRIS-APEX, to explore asteroid Apophis.
- NASA’s DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense TestSep 27, 2022. RELEASE 22-100. After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
- Live updates: DART asteroid space mission - CNNLive updates: DART asteroid space mission. NASA's DART spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid. By Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury and Ashley Strickland, CNN. Updated 9:31 p.m. ET,...
- Psyche - NASA SciencePsyche is a NASA mission to study a metal-rich asteroid with the same name, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. This is NASA’s first mission to study an asteroid that has more metal than rock or ice. Psyche launched Oct. 13, 2023, at 10:19 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center.
- NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in SpaceOct 11, 2022. RELEASE 22-105. This imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on Sept. 26. The shape of that tail has changed over time.
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