Sampling Success: OSIRIS-REx Successfully Gathers Bennu Regolith for Asteroid Sample Return

Bill Jelen

October 21, 2020

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NASA
October 21, 2020
Bill Jelen

"...I dreamed of an array of Bennu regolith floating around me." - Dante Lauretta, Principal Investigator, OSIRIS-REx

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A full-scale engineering model of OSIRIS-REx's TAGSAM collector, used to gather samples from the surface of asteroid Bennu. Photo credit: Jared Haworth / We Report Space

OSIRIS-REx To Attempt TAG of Asteroid Bennu

NASA
October 20, 2020
Bill Jelen

Asteroid Bennu will have its "close encounter" with OSIRIS-REx on October 20, 2020, as the spacecraft makes contact and collects samples for study back on earth.

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A fictional asteroid punches into Earth’s atmosphere at 38,000 miles per hour in the IMAX® filmAsteroid Hunters.© 2020 IMAX Corporation

IMAX Asteroid Hunters Premieres at KSC Visitor Center

NASA
October 7, 2020
Bill Jelen

A new 3-D IMAX film detailing NASA's asteroid detection efforts debuts at the KSC Visitor Center.

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