OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Captured By Telescope On Day Before Returning Asteroid Samples To Earth

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy captured NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft deployed a capsule carrying bits of asteroid Bennu for a landing in Utah.

Credit: Gianluca Masi / Virtual Telescope Project | animation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center