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by MattExSci 499 days ago
The physics don't work to bring this stuff back to LEO. We’ve got to use the atmosphere to slow us down.
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How are you planning to do that in future missions? Sending up a a capsule or heat shield for sample return, or is the ultimate goal to return a larger mass and lose some?

Pre-built sample return has been proven to work with another asteroid in a small way I guess, the Hayabusa mission.

well, nothing is really ever lost