NASA Explorers: Sample Return
How does it feel to watch your life’s work parachute through the atmosphere? Relive the joy and terror of the OSIRIS-REx sample return with NASA Explorers… but retrieving the sample […]
How does it feel to watch your life’s work parachute through the atmosphere? Relive the joy and terror of the OSIRIS-REx sample return with NASA Explorers… but retrieving the sample […]
Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept. 24, 2023, it released […]
The goal of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to collect a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth. But just how did the OSIRIS-REx team choose Bennu from […]
Follow along with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team, as they launch a spacecraft to an asteroid, collect a sample of Bennu, and bring it home to Earth.
The lifetime of space missions can be measured in decades, not years. From designing, building, launching, sampling and finally returning home, follow the NASA Explorers of OSIRIS-REx as they enter […]
Bennu’s Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through […]
When it comes to space exploration, expect the unexpected. As OSIRIS-REx approached asteroid Bennu, scientists were surprised to find a loosely packed rubble pile. This episode, NASA Explorers get a […]
It was Touch-and-Go there for a few seconds…literally! OSIRIS-REx had only 6 seconds to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu – in a maneuver called TAG – while the NASA […]
It’s not rockets and satellites that make NASA soar. It’s people. Go inside the space agency and follow the pioneers, risk-takers and experts at the frontline of exploration. This season, […]
El viaje de Bennu es una película animada de 6 minutos sobre la misión OSIRIS-REx de la NASA, el asteroide Bennu y la formación de nuestro sistema solar. Nacido de […]