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NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission grabbed so much of Bennu that debris jammed the collector’s lid and the sample began leaking into space — engineers ru…

OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The ...
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OSIRIS-REx watched its asteroid sample capsule head toward Earth (photos)

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe captured photos during the release of its return capsule last month, preserving the historic moment for posterity. Those images, which the space agency released on ...
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NASA’s first asteroid-return sample is a goldmine of life-sustaining materials

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's arm penetrated asteroid Bennu to a significant depth

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure In Utah

After years of anticipation and hard work by the mission team, the University of Arizona-led NASA OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully landed a capsule with rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu in ...
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It Took 20 Years to Steal This Asteroid Dust. NASA Did It—and Found Water and Carbon Inside.

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown, NASA has ...
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UPDATE: OSIRIS-REx is offering up abundant samples, but is making scientists work for it

HOUSTON, Texas (ABC4) – OSIRIS-Rex is continuing to make NASA scientists work hard to get answers. The space capsule’s sample delivered nearly 10 more grams of sample from the Asteroid Bennu than ...
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Scientists excited by first look at OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples

A small amount of "extra bonus sample" from the asteroid Bennu is visible on the outside of the TAGSAM device that contains the bulk of the sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Credit: ...
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OSIRIS-REx Sample Capsule Safely Touches Down with NASA's First-Ever Asteroid Sample

The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system Just prior to landing, the capsule entered the ...
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NASA revealing OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample today: Watch it live

The agency will give us our first look at the mission's pristine asteroid sample today (Oct. 10) at 11 a.m. ET. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
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NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. When NASA sent OSIRIS-REx to the asteroid Bennu in 2016, its scientists were hoping the asteroid's ...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft views sample return capsule's departure

After years of anticipation and hard work by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security—Regolith Explorer) team, a capsule of rocks and dust collected ...