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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is Headed Home With a Huge Asteroid Sample By Ryan Whitwam on May 12, 2021 at 7:30 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is heading home. After a successful visit to the asteroid Bennu that lasted more than two years, the mission broke orbit today and set course for Earth. Most robotic missions are a one-way affair, but OSIRIS-REx wasn’t going to an asteroid just to look around. It grabbed a souvenir in the form of about 2 pounds of regolith, and scientists on Earth can’t ...

NASA NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) robotic deep-space probe is returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10, 2021 at 4:23 pm EDT, the spacecraft began its 2.5-year journey to Earth laden with rock and dust samples as its four high-thrust main engines fired for seven minutes to reach a relative velocity of 600 mph (1,000 km/h). Today's departure comes after weeks of preparations as Mission Control waited for Bennu to reach the optimum position for the return flight to Earth. The imaging cameras switched off...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has begun its 1.4 billion mile journey back to Earth — and it's carrying historic asteroid samples By Sophie Lewis NASA attempts historic touchdown on asteroid After nearly five years in space, a NASA spacecraft is nearing the end of its historic mission, beginning its journey home to Earth with a plethora of asteroid samples.  NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft began its journey back to Earth on Monday — a trip that's expected to take around two-and-a-half ...

May 11, 2021 Share A probe from the U.S. space agency NASA is scheduled later Monday to fire its thrusters and leave the orbit of the asteroid Bennu, beginning a two-year journey back to Earth, complete with samples from the asteroid’s surface. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) is scheduled to fire its thrusters for about seven minutes, taking it out of the asteroid’s orbit and setting it on a homeward course. OSIRIS-REx first rendezvoused with the asteroid in 2018. Last October, the craft dropped to Bennu’s s...

Spacecraft carrying historic asteroid samples begins journey to Earth Sophie Lewis © / AP Space Asteroid Grab After nearly five years in space, a NASA spacecraft is nearing the end of its historic mission, beginning its journey home to Earth with a plethora of asteroid samples.  NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft began its journey back to Earth on Monday — a trip that's expected to take around two-and-a-half years. It's returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, and it marks NASA's firs...