Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It’s Totally Awesome
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The OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples from the asteroid Bennu that could rewrite our solar system’s history
    • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s totally mind blowing to me. If you have ever played KSP. Planning an intercept, landing and return is prettt hard, even when you have full and instantaneous control and complete situational awareness.

      Programming and doing it remotely with known comms lag is crazy to me.