NASA ScienceCasts: Riding the Slingshot to Asteroid Bennu

Gravity’s pull is being used to help propel a small spacecraft known as OSIRIS-REx to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx Mission: http://www.asteroidmission.org/

Credit: NASA
Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds
Release Date: September 21, 2017

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