NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2024 Dr. Robert H. Goddard ...
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OSIRIS-REx parachute deployment affected by wiring error
WASHINGTON — The drogue parachute on the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule failed to deploy properly because of a design error, ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission collected more Bennu asteroid samples than first thought
NASA has revealed that it has already processed 70.3 grams of rocks and dust collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from ...
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Osiris-Rex: NASA reveals evidence of water and carbon in sample delivered to Earth from an asteroid
The Osiris-Rex sample return capsule shortly after touching down in the Utah desert. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber On September 24 this ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule returns to Earth with a sample from the ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid Bennu
The training model of the sample return capsule floats downward during a drop test on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 (Image ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to Apophis
News Spaceflight The first asteroid samples ever collected by NASA are closing in on Earth for a historic landing in ...
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Will NASA’s OSIRIS-REx stick its asteroid sample landing? Scientists are ‘very much confident’ as zero hour nears
News Science & Astronomy An illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft after sending its sample capsule towards Earth. (Image credit: NASA ...
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NASA ready for OSIRIS-REx sample return
WAILEA, Hawaii — A NASA spacecraft is on course to return samples from an asteroid to Earth in less than ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Makes Final Course Adjustment Before Asteroid Sample Delivery
On September 17, NASA adjusted the trajectory of its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to fine-tune the landing site for its sample capsule ...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates
On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will make history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after ...
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