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NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

Last month team members practiced retrieving the sample return capsule, using a replica, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. NASA/Keegan Barber hide caption

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Space

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

Last month team members practiced retrieving the sample return capsule, using a replica, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. NASA/Keegan Barber hide caption

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NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

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'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here. Eitan Abromovitch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Movies

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

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Fans of a rising Nigerian music star are protesting after his untimely death

The Nigerian music star Mohbad died on Sept. 12 in Lagos at age 27. BANG Showbiz via Reuters hide caption

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Africa

Fans of a rising Nigerian music star are protesting after his untimely death

Fans of a rising Nigerian music star are protesting after his untimely death

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Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs

Mayor Edilberto Molina (right), alongside Lt. Col. Óscar Usme aboard a well-armed Colombian Navy boat, tour the Caguán River which flows past Cartagena del Chairá. Carlos Saavedra for NPR hide caption

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World

Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs

Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs

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