It's pretty amazing they launched it to an asteroid, landed something on it, brought it back up, then flew it back to earth and managed to drop it within a spec

It's pretty amazing they launched it to an asteroid, landed something on it, brought it back up, then flew it back to earth and managed to drop it within a specific small zone of the Utah desert. And then on top of that the spacecraft is going to continue on studying another asteroid. I guess they figured out a lot of this stuff with the first moon rock samples in 1969 but still it's amazing thinking about all the moving parts. They also apparently learned a lot from the failed solar wind sample return called Genesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission