NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission: Preparing for Sample Return to Earth

NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission: Preparing for Sample Return to Earth

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The primitive material from Bennu—rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020—will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. 

Follow sample-delivery updates on the OSIRIS-REx blog: https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

OSIRIS-REx Mission: http://www.asteroidmission.org

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio

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Release Date: July 20, 2023

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