NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets records
LAUREL, Md. — A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records.The Osiris-Rex spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the asteroid Bennu, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) from Earth. It’s the smallest celestial body ever to be orbited by a spacecraft. Bennu is just 1,600 feet across.The spacecraft’s laps are barely a mile above the asteroid’s surface, another record.Osiris-Rex arrived at Bennu in early […]
