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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft heading back to Earth after retrieving asteroid sample By Bradford Betz  6 days ago NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Monday began its long journey back to Earth after collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer was NASA's first spacecraft to visit an asteroid near Earth to bring back a sampling for scientists. The spacecraft reached asteroid... RELATED LOCAL CHANNELS IN THIS ARTICLE In the mid-1980s, a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images trying to u...

Share NASA invites the public and the media to watch its first asteroid sample return mission begin a two-year cruise home at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, May 10, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The public can follow along on the NASA Solar System Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts using #ToBennuAndBack, and ask questions about the mission by commenting on an Instagram story between 12 p.m. EDT, May 10 and 12 p.m. EDT, May 11. Answers will post to NASA Solar System’s Instagram stories on May 11. Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, ...

osiris-rex_departure.png This illustration shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departing asteroid Bennu to begin its two-year journey back to Earth. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA invites the public and the media to watch its first asteroid sample return mission begin a two-year cruise home at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, May 10, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agencys website. The public can follow along on the NASA Solar System Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts using #ToBennuAndBack, and ask questions about the mission by commenting on an Instagram story between 12 p.m...

Images of NASA-Damaged Asteroid Coming Our Way as OSIRIS Completes Flyby 8 Apr 2021, 11:30 UTC · by 1 photo OSIRIS-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, and it is the complicated name NASA gave to a small spacecraft purposefully sent into space to find Bennu, steal a piece of it, and head back home with it for our scientists to study. The spacecraft did its job wonderfully. It reached the asteroid, dipped a sampling head into the surface of the floating rock, fired a couple of nitrogen gas canisters to stir things up, col...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Last Asteroid Flyby Before Heading Home By Ryan Whitwam on April 8, 2021 at 7:01 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA’s ambitious Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) has been in orbit of the asteroid Bennu since 2018, but it’s getting ready to call it a day and head home. NASA reports that OSIRIS-REx has completed a last-minute addition to its mission profile: one final flyby of Bennu to see how its activities changed the su...