[DaFace]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

This was kind of cool.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/2...status-center/

Here's the money shot:

"Maybe one more time - it's just so cool. I must have watched it about a hundred times last night." - @OSIRISREx principal investigator Dante Lauretta of @UArizonaLPL reveals the first images from the spacecraft's TAG of asteroid Bennu yesterday. #ToBennuAndBack pic.twitter.com/DqTtOA2pwg

— NASA (@NASA) October 21, 2020

It's sometimes mind boggling the timelines NASA has to deal with. Launch in 2016. Intercept in 2020. Return to Earth in 2023.