Remember OSIRIS-REx? It may be forgotten in all the more recent space and solar system news (James Webb telescope, we'll get back to that, the Parker Solar Probe dipping into the solar corona, Hubble Space Telescope working again, the next Landsat launch and first light, the test mission to see if a collision can move an asteroid) -- but OSIRIS-REx sampled an asteroid and is on its way back to Earth to drop off the samples in 2023.
After that, it turns out the working satellite can go see another asteroid, which got famous as one which had a chance (for awhile) of hitting Earth in the future. It won't, but it's still interesting.
NASA Mission Could Blast an Asteroid That Once Menaced Earth
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