"bennu"

During its October 20, 2020, sample collection event, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, collected a substantial amount of material

The probe is thought to have collected some 400 grams (14 ounces) of fragments, far more than the minimum of 60 grams needed.

"We're looking for our own origins out there, and that's why we've gone so far to bring a bit of Bennu back."

NASA's first mission to return a sample from an ancient asteroid -- the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-Rex -- is a seven-year long voyage