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Why NASA Has Delayed Return Journey of Probe that Collected Historic Asteroid Bennu Sample FOLLOW US ON: National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) has announced that the return journey of its asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe is being delayed by two months. In a statement on Tuesday, the American space agency said that the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will leave asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back to Earth on May 10, 2021. Earlier, the spacecraft was supposed to leave the asteroid on March ...

Jan. 26—NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which collected rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu in October, will depart the asteroid on May 10 to begin its two-year journey back to Earth, NASA announced on Tuesday. “Leaving Bennu’s vicinity in May puts us in the ‘sweet spot,&#

NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will head back to Earth in May Engadget 1/27/2021 Mariella Moon The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon bid asteroid Bennu farewell. NASA has announced that OSIRIS-REx will start its journey back to our planet on May 10th, two-and-a-half years after it rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid. The agency launched the spacecraft back in 2016 to collect samples from Bennu in hopes that analyzing the materials could give us more insight into the formation of the Solar System and into the beginning of life here on Earth. OSIRIS-REx observe...

NASA spacecraft carrying sample asteroid material preps for Earthbound journey If successful, it'll be the largest amount of extraterrestrial material brought back from space since the Apollo era on January 27, 2021, 10:07 Why it matters: NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will depart the friendly vicinity of asteroid Bennu later this year after successfully collecting a sample that’ll eventually be studied here on Earth. The seven-year-long mission will help scientists learn more abou...

NASA OSIRIS-REx mission aims to depart Bennu in May Shane McGlaun - Jan 27, 2021, 8:11am CST NASA has announced that its OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to depart from asteroid Bennu and head back to earth on May 10. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, completed its sample collection mission on October 20, 2020. The spacecraft likely exceeded its requirement to collect two ounces of asteroid material. NASA expects OSIRIS-REx to deliver its samples to earth on September 24, 2023. OSIRIS-REx proj...