Solveig Irvine News Today

NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first

Solveig Irvine, who serves as mission manager for OSIRIS-REx at Marshall Space Flight Center, said her team and others have been practicing and preparing for

NASA's OSIRIS-REx is set to bring back samples from a mysterious asteroid known as Bennu after it spent the last seven years in deep space.

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer – OSIRIS-REx – spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10 at 3:23 p.m., the spacecraft fired its main engines full throttle for seven minutes – its most significant maneuver since it arrived at Bennu in 2018. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600...