NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is delivering historic asteroid samples, culminating a seven-year mission to unlock the solar system's secrets, facing a fiery descent and desert recovery.
US News: NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully returned to Earth with the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid. The capsule, carrying the ce
NASA s OSIRIS-REx mission is preparing to return to Earth on September 24 with the first-ever US asteroid sample. The spacecraft will deliver an estimated 8.8 ounces of material collected from the surface of asteroid Bennu. The capsule is scheduled to land in a Utah desert, but the trajectory and velocity must be precise to prevent the samples from being lost in space or burning up in Earth s atmosphere.