NASA Probe Stows Huge Asteroid Sample for Return to Earth
Following the recent successful touch and go operation, NASA has reported a sizeable sample of the asteroid has now been locked away in the probe's …
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NASA once paid a man $1,000,000,000 to stop an asteroid from crashing into Earth
NASA once paid a man a whopping $1 billion to stop a potentially devastating asteroid from hitting Earth. With a diameter about the height of the …