ORLANDO, Fla. – A NASA spacecraft briefly smooched the surface of a potentially hazardous asteroid more than 200 million miles away on Tuesday successfully conducting the first U.S.
asteroid sample attempt but it will be a few days before we know how much it picked up.A muted affair by NASA standards due to the coroanvirus pandemic, cheers and celebrations could still be heard from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft team after the event, a decade in the making, happened without so much as a single ounce of drama.In a time of uncertainty the mission offered a flawless approach to uncharted territory from launch to the quick “touch and go” or TAG maneuver to collect the sample from the 500-meter-wide asteroid called Bennu.[RECAP: History made as NASA.