NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu

OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a remnant from the dawn of the solar system, and to return a sample of Bennu to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and arrives at Bennu on December 3, 2018. This video illustrates each of the mission's carefully-designed orbit maneuvers and mapping campaigns on its journey to Bennu and back.

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

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Full Credits
Dan Gallagher (USRA): Producer
Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Lead Animator
Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator
Kel Elkins (USRA): Data Visualizer
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator
Josh Masters (USRA): Animator
Lisa Poje (USRA): Animator
Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator
Dante Lauretta (University of Arizona): Scientist
Jason Dworkin (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

[IceCrusheRmedia]

I wasn't yet aware of _how complex_ this mission design was! Very impressive.

[vikranttyagiRN]

WOW. This mission journey complete blew my expectations away. Space Exploration just never ever fails to amaze

[WestOfEarth]

I thought landing on Titan was the most impressive demonstration of celestial navigation until this Bennu encounter. Encountering an asteroid may not have the 'glamour' of encountering planets and moons, but this is clearly more challenging.

[mangoldm]

This might be the best mission summary I’ve ever seen.

[solacyre]

What a journey, let us hope that Osiris Rex will be successful

[baflatoxin]

Thanks for such a thorough mission breakdown. The amount of maneuverability and mechanics blew me away!

Good luck!

[AC-iytp]

Or Nasa can just get prime membership and get it delivered tomorrow.

[JBDazen]

Incredible. The planning that goes into this is phenomenal. Hopefully it will all work out like this.

[amfproject]

Who's here after this little beauties sucsess tonight to tag sample and do one, astonishing

[samaira]

Here's update...sample collected now👍👍👍👍

[verah]

Wow! Wow! Science fiction turning into reality! Astounding! What a team! Best wishes!

[MrVdeVINGANCA]

Huge technology performance to do all this. Such amazing thing

[CitizenCraftymethod]

Will Orisis have any effect on the Bennu's orbit? Perhaps very minimal?

[terryhollands]

I hope it works out well for NASA.
NASA does a lot of good work

[michaeldixon]

Say what you want, NASA is still the world leader in space exploration.

[ThePrimalEarth]

I guess you could say this mission is very BENNUfical to learning about the early solar system....






ill let myself out now

[wxb]

Damn... I didn't know this mission was THAT intense... Damn!

[allisontomas]

That's so amazing! I hope all goes well

[azmainkhan]

I came here because NASA has notified me that it will be shown live. I never thought that this mission started from 2016, and also it will end in 2023. Long term mission.

[Cetus]

So exciting! I salute the U.S citizens for funding NASA, so it can achieve the entire humanity's dreams. Good luck from Israel!