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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Updates and Discussion Thread! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/nasa
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Welcome everyone!

About OSIRIS-REx

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The pristine material from Bennu – rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 – will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule landing starts at 10 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. MDT).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sample return capsule has been wheeled into the clean room. Next step is to carefully extract the sample canister from the capsule.