The spacecraft left Bennu for Earth on May 10, 2021. On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down safely in the Utah desert at Dugway Proving Ground, bringing back the 120 ...
It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth. Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth ... “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ...
In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military ...