Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REX)

Though there are only 24 days left until the mission's seven-year journey comes to its climactic end, the mood of NASA's OSIRIS-REx team is calm. After months of rehearsals, it was clear during the final dress rehearsal this week in Utah that the team has mastered the intricate steps required to retrieve the sample of …

By Sandra Freund, OSIRIS-REx Program Manager, Lockheed Martin On Sept. 24, samples of asteroid Bennu will arrive on Earth, thanks to NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and its mission to obtain fragments of this rocky body. The flight portion of the mission, many years in the making, will end when its sample return capsule lands in the …