NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...
The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA arrived on Earth Sunday, Sept. 24, and there are multiple events leading up to its landing. NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a capsule containing several ounces of rocky, dusty material it collected from the asteroid Bennu on Sunday, successfully closing out the agency’s first ...