"I'm going to the Utah desert to retrieve a capsule from space." We have known more banal absence messages. The pretext that our e-mail will go unanswered is nevertheless credible. Dante Lauretta is in charge of Osiris-Rex, a NASA mission that will bring back pieces of asteroids to Earth. The arrival of this small package is scheduled this Sunday, September 24, around 17 p.m. (Paris time), seven years and dust – necessarily cosmic – after the departure of the probe to the asteroid Bennu.
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