'Nasa paid $1 billion to this man to stop an asteroid crashing into Earth'

Dante Lauretta's book narrates Nasa's Bennu mission to prevent asteroid collisions. OSIRIS-REx's success in collecting samples from Bennu marks a pivotal achievement in planetary defense and cosmic exploration. Nasa embarked on an unprecedented mission to avert potential catastrophe from asteroid Bennu, a massive celestial body with the potential to strike Earth on September 24, 2182.

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