SpaceNews

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Ahead

NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security ...
Space.com

OSIRIS-REx: NASA's Asteroid Sample-Return Mission in Pictures

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Testing The OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Door

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center technicians and engineers cycle the sample return capsule (SRC) door in a test of NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...
Astronomy

OSIRIS-REx successfully returns samples from asteroid Bennu

On Sept. 24, 2023, part of the asteroid belt hit Earth — safely under parachutes and inside a capsule. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — ...
ExtremeTech

OSIRIS-REx is about to go collect (and return) samples from an asteroid

Sometimes, it's the big missions that are the most impressive -- your moon landings and your ISS construction projects. But these days, the big space projects that define the push toward a future in ...
Gizmodo

Returned Asteroid Sample Canister Contains Way More Asteroid Than Expected

OSIRIS-REx's return from Bennu comes with a twist, as scientists face delays in disassembling the canister due to an abundance of material on the exterior. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists working to ...
Aviation Week

NASA Overcomes Osiris-Rex Sample Return Fastener Issue

HOUSTON—The curation team for the Osiris-Rex sample return mission at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) here has managed to release two fasteners that have prevented full access to sample materials ...
SpaceRef

Scientific Bonanza – OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Return Capsule Studied as “Artificial Meteor”

Sensor equipment was placed right under the point of peak heating by the OSIRIS-REx capsule as it made its way to a Utah landing. Image credit: Johns Hopkins University/Benjamin Fernando. In the early ...
IFLScience

OSIRIS-REx Has Not Brought “Asteroid Germs” Back To Earth

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Nature

Asteroid sampler’s hypersonic return thrilled scientists: here’s what they learnt

Physicist Jennifer Inman has observed the aerodynamics of many spacecraft, including NASA’s space shuttles, as they launched and landed. But on 24 September she had the chance to study a rarity: the ...
ExtremeTech

NASA's OSIRIS-REx to land on an asteroid and return samples to Earth -- possibly in 2016

An incredibly ambitious project to return samples from an asteroid has passed a major milestone, and has NASA's blessing to take the text step toward a launch in September 2016. Share on Facebook ...
CNN

Queen’s Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample

Brian May has once again proven why he is rock royalty. Not only is he the Queen guitarist, but he is also an astrophysicist who recently helped NASA return its first ever asteroid sample to Earth.