NASA craft set to touch down after mission to most 'potentially hazardous' asteroid in the solar system
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NASA's Osirs-REx spacecraft will return to Earth carrying the largest-ever sample of an asteroid. The space rock has been deemed "potentiall hazardous."
"We think objects like Bennu may have made Earth habitable," Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for Osiris-REx and a professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona, told the Wall Street Journal. "They might have delivered the ocean water, the molecules that are in our atmosphere, and maybe even the organic materials that triggered the origin of life on our planet." Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
The capsule is expected to complete its landfall by 11 a.m. Eastern Time.