OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Trailer

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. Learn more about the OSIRIS-REx mission. Follow sample-delivery updates on the OSIRIS-REx blog.

Music is "Path of a Hero" Caleb Jordan Swift of Universal Production Music.

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

Been looking forward to this all year! See ya in september, hopefully safe and sound.

[parkex]

Exciting weekend ahead! Put this in my calendar years ago.

[Crunch_dGH]

Other than volume, how are Bennu/OsirisRex samples expected to compare with those retrieved from Ryugu & returned by Hayabusa2?

[woolfy]

So this asteroid is supposed to have trillions of dollars of platinum in it, right? If so, it makes sense why they would go through all this for a sample of dirt.

[DanielIlkov]

Go NASA's OSIRIS-REx!!! I am sure it will be a success!!! And if we participate we will get a Special Virtual Stamp!!! 😀👍🪨🛰🌠