NASA says images suggest "success" in asteroid sample collection

The U.S. space agency said Wednesday that it likely succeeded in collecting samples through a spacecraft touchdown on asteroid Bennu a day earlier, based on images that captured the activities."Everything that we can see from these initial images indicates sampling success," Dante Lauretta, a University of Arizona scientist who leads NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, told an online press conference, although noting that verification activities will continue.As part of the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday unfurled its robotic a…READ FULL ARTICLE