Look up! You might see NASA's asteroid-hunting spacecraft fly past Earth

It ’s time to wave goodbye ... for now. This morning, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is zipping past Earth on its way to the asteroid Bennu – the last time we’ll see the spacecraft until 2023.At 9:52 a.m. Pacific, OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith...

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - September 22, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Amina Khan Source Type: news