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Message: <blockquote data-quote="priyade" data-source="post: 29227282" data-attributes="member: 565365">After traveling billions of miles for seven years to touch an asteroid and bring a sample home, NASA's Osiris-REx mission has finally delivered a precious sample to Earth.Mission members cheered and clapped as they learned the sample canister had successfully touched down around 10:52 a.m. Eastern in a Utah desert after a nail-biting descent through the atmosphere.Workers tracked the capsule as it parachuted down toward its landing zone, performed a safety assessment and then whisked it off, suspended under a helicopter, to a laboratory clean room.In the capsule should be roughly a coffee mug's worth of rock and other material collected from the asteroid Bennu, which at the time was more than 200 million miles away.</blockquote>

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