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🚀 OSIRIS-REx: NASA's Historic Mission to Asteroid Bennu 🌠 | Full Documentary on NASA+

🔭 Join us on an extraordinary space mission! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully traveled over 200 million miles to asteroid Bennu to collect and return America’s first-ever asteroid sample. This groundbreaking mission provides new insights into the origins of our solar system, planetary defense, and the building blocks of life.

🌍 Available Nov. 8 on NASA+, NASA’s free, ad-free streaming service. Watch the incredible story of OSIRIS-REx, the challenges faced, and what scientists are discovering from the ancient asteroid Bennu.

🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Documentary
✅ What is OSIRIS-REx? The first U.S. mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid.
✅ Why Bennu? How this 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid holds secrets about the early solar system and even the origins of life.
✅ Asteroid Impact Risks – How Bennu is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) and why studying it helps predict and prevent future asteroid threats.
✅ The Sample Return Journey – OSIRIS-REx’s daring maneuver to touch-and-go (TAG) on Bennu’s surface and bring the precious material back to Earth.
✅ NASA’s Cutting-Edge Technology – The advanced science behind spacecraft navigation, asteroid mapping, and space sample collection.
✅ What Scientists Found – Early analysis of Bennu’s surface and how it might help unlock mysteries about water, organic molecules, and the formation of planets.

🌌 Why OSIRIS-REx and Bennu Matter
🚀 First U.S. Mission to Return an Asteroid Sample – A major milestone in space exploration.
🌍 Planetary Defense – Understanding Bennu helps scientists develop strategies for asteroid impact mitigation.
🧬 Clues to Life’s Origins – Bennu contains organic molecules that may have contributed to life on Earth.
🛰 Future Space Missions – This mission paves the way for future asteroid exploration and resource utilization.

📅 Key Mission Timeline
🔹 2016 – OSIRIS-REx launched from Earth.
🔹 2018 – Arrived at asteroid Bennu.
🔹 2020 – Successfully collected samples from Bennu’s surface.
🔹 2023 – Sample return capsule safely landed in Utah.
🔹 2024 – Scientists analyze Bennu’s material, revealing insights into the solar system's origins.

🛰 Meet OSIRIS-REx – NASA’s Asteroid Hunter
🔹 Name Meaning: Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.
🔹 Mission Goals: Map Bennu, collect and return a sample, and study asteroid dynamics.
🔹 Technology: Equipped with high-tech cameras, spectrometers, and robotic arms for precise sample collection.

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