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Cheers as spacecraft tags asteroid

In a brief moment that its principal scientist Dante Lauretta described as “transcendental”, NASA’s OSIRISREx spacecraft successfully played tag with an asteroid on 21 October.

The manoeuvre, officially called TAG (touch-and-go), saw the spacecraft touch down perfectly in one

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