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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Ahead

NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security ...
Phys.org

Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind

The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with it came a treasure trove of data. An international collaboration, led by ...
autoevolution

Building Blocks for Life Found in OSIRIS-REx Sample Retrieval Mission, NASA Confirm

Life on Earth, as we know it, needs a few things to get off the ground. It needs an abundance of liquid water, a Goldilocks temperature that won't make said water freeze or boil, and a collection of a ...
Aviation Week

Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Return Clears Hurdle

NASA’s third New Frontiers-class mission, the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return probe, cleared a crucial decision point for development May 15 and is expected to proceed in preparation for launch to ...
SpaceNews

Testing The OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Door

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center technicians and engineers cycle the sample return capsule (SRC) door in a test of NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation ...
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OSIRIS-REx bringing asteroid samples to Earth - NASA explains

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...
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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth ...
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NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will travel to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and bring a sample back to Earth for ...
ExtremeTech

NASA's OSIRIS-REx to land on an asteroid and return samples to Earth -- possibly in 2016

An incredibly ambitious project to return samples from an asteroid has passed a major milestone, and has NASA's blessing to take the text step toward a launch in September 2016. Share on Facebook ...
ExtremeTech

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Is Leaking into Space

NASA reports the probe grabbed so much regolith from the asteroid that it's leaking out of the collector. The team is now working to determine how best to keep the precious cargo from escaping. Share ...
Phys.org

Why collect asteroid samples? Four essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...