“Touchdown confirmed,” said a NASA announcer at 6:12 p.m. (10:12 p.m. GMT) (File)
Washington, United States:
NASA’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex landed on the rock-strewn surface of Asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, landing for seconds to collect rock and dust samples in a 330 million precision operation kilometers from Earth.
“Touchdown confirmed,” said a NASA announcer at 6:12 p.m. (10:12 p.m. GMT). The actual event happened about 18.5 minutes earlier, but it took that long for the confirmation signals to be sent back to mission control on our planet.
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