Neil deGrasse Tyson

And so many people, when they just come to, you know, to a museum, it's the metal ones that get all the attention, because the other ones just kind of look like rocks, you know, frankly.

So it seemed to me that it would be harder to sample return from a metallic asteroid because you can't sort of pick up dirt on its surface.

Is that a true fact?

Just Bruce Willis could take care of that.

No problem.

No problem.

Okay, so we go to this asteroid.

If I remember correctly, this mission was a touch and go, right?

Perfect, yep, it was.

Yeah, and so it comes down, punches up some material, captures it in a capsule.

When I rethink what this mission did, I'm just saying...

As a matter of fact, it is rocket science, right?

So you launch OSIRIS-REx from a moving platform, Earth, to intersect a moving target, Bennu.

You do a touch and go, grab material, come back to Earth, deploy the capsule onto a rotating Earth so that it lands where?

Utah desert.

in Utah.

As well as should.

Right.

So on the rotating Earth, all this has got to work out.

And then...