5-Second Asteroid 'Touch' Enough For Sample Return | Video
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 11:20
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu in 2018. It carries a Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) that will collect samples of the asteroid from the end of a robotic arm.