The largest sample of an asteroid ever collected and the first for the American space agency NASA, has successfully landed on Earth in the US state of Utah.
When it landed, thunderous applause could be heard throughout NASA’s control room.
Six years after it was launched, the US space agency NASA’s mission has ended.
Although it was expected that the descent could be dangerous for Earth’s atmosphere, NASA hoped that everything would end with a gentle descent around 9:00 a.m. local time (5:00 p.m. CET) in a military zone used for missile testing.
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft, which took off in 2016, brought a “soil” sample from the surface of the Bennu asteroid to our planet.
Source: Business Insider