NASA OSIRIS-REx mission asteroid touchdown date bumped to October

NASA’s ambitious OSIRIS-REx mission, which aims to collect a physical sample from the asteroid Bennu, finally has a date for the first touchdown attempt. Later this year, according to the space agency, its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will touchdown at a previously determined location, collect some sample materials from the asteroid’s surface, then return to space, eventually bringing that sample back to …