Nearly There: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Being Readied for Sept. 8 Launch

By Emily Carney, on August 27th, 2016

An artist’s rendering of OSIRIS-REx at asteroid 101955 Bennu. Image Credit: NASA

The last decade has proven to be watershed years for deep space exploration. While the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft proved a small lander could be set down upon a rocky comet, other missions including NASA’s Curiosity rover, Dawn, and […]

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OSIRIS-REx Taking Shape, Engineers Explain Innovative Asteroid Sample Return Mechanism

By Emily Carney, on September 7th, 2015
Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx in the environs of Asteroid Bennu, sometime after 2018. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

While avid space watchers may thrill to missions such as Stardust (which returned a sample from a comet), Dawn (which visited an asteroid and dwarf planet), and Rosetta (which placed a lander upon a comet’s […]

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Spacecraft Assembly Begins for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission

By Mike Killian, on March 31st, 2015

Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard

The first United States mission in history to launch a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid, retrieve samples, and return those samples back to Earth for study just passed a big milestone in its development […]

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