This artist’s concept shows the planned flight path of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its final flyby of asteroid Bennu, which is scheduled for April 7.…
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This illustration shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departing asteroid Bennu to begin its two-year journey back to Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona On May 10, NASA’s…
Overhead view of OSIRIS-REx at sample site Nightingale, with a parking lot for comparison. Credit: NASA/Goddard/CI Lab/University of Arizona When landing Apollo 11 in 1969,…
[embedded content] This is what it looks like to punch an asteroid. Last month, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx descended toward, thumped into, and then quickly…
This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stowing the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020. The spacecraft will use its Touch-And-Go Sample…
This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows Bennu in one full rotation from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km). The…
Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on October 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer…
Estelle Church. Credit: Courtesy Estelle Church Name: Estelle Church Title: Systems Engineer and OSIRIS-REx Deputy TAG Phase Lead at Lockheed Martin Education: B.A. Physics and…
OSIRIS-REx at Sample Site Nightingale. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG”…
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of…
Surface-level view of OSIRIS-REx at sample site Nightingale, with a parking lot for comparison. Credit: NASA/Goddard/CI Lab/University of Arizona NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission…
Exploration Ground System teams are processing the Artemis I booster segments and preparing to stack them with forward and aft assemblies at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Matchpoint rehearsal, which is the final time the mission will practice the…
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March…
Sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This view of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected…
Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rockstar. Credit: ESA – Science Office Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May has teamed up with asteroid researchers to investigate striking…
During the OSIRIS-REx Reconnaissance B flyover of primary sample collection site Nightingale, the spacecraft left its safe-home orbit to pass over the sample site at…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.…
This trio of images acquired by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows a wide shot and two close-ups of a region in asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere. The…