A Burnt Marshmallow NASA sent to Space

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NASA decided to spend billions of dollars to send a spacecraft to a giant space rock that looks like a burnt marshmallow.
The spacecraft, named OSIRIS-REx, had to dodge flying boulders and dust storms to touch the asteroid for a few seconds and grab some dirt.
The spacecraft then had to store the dirt in a capsule and fly back to Earth, hoping that nothing goes wrong along the way.
The capsule will land in the Utah desert in 2023, where scientists will eagerly open it and see what they got.
Hopefully, the dirt will reveal some secrets of the origin of life and the solar system, or at least make a nice souvenir.

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