NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Secured in Utah Clean Room
At 12:37 a.m. EDT (10:37 a.m. MDT), a helicopter gently placed NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule, attached to the end of a 100-foot cable, on the ground outside a hangar on the Department of Defense’s...
View ArticleOSIRIS-REx Blog Coverage for Sample Landing Day Concludes
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx clean room team has finished disassembling the sample capsule and packaging its components, including the unopened sample canister. Now packed in shipping containers – along with the...
View ArticleNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Arrives in Houston
The first U.S. asteroid sample, delivered by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth on Sept. 24, has arrived at its permanent home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it will be cared for,...
View ArticleThe OSIRIS-REx Sample Canister Lid is Removed
NASA scientists found dark powder and sand-sized particles on the avionics deck of the OSIRIS-REx science canister when the initial lid was removed today. The canister from the OSIRIS-REx sample return...
View ArticleInitial Curation of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample
The initial curation process for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample of asteroid Bennu is moving slower than anticipated, but for the best reason: the sample runneth over. The abundance of material found when...
View ArticleBrian May Guest Blog: Stereoscopic Images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sampling Head
Making stereoscopic images of asteroid Bennu was not part of the brief of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission; but we civilians, Claudia Manzoni and myself, were invited by mission principal investigator Dante...
View ArticleNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Achieves Sample Mass Milestone
The curation team processing NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample has removed and collected 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of rocks and dust from the sampler hardware – surpassing the agency’s goal of bringing at...
View ArticleNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team Clears Hurdle to Access Remaining Bennu Sample
Curation team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have successfully removed the two fasteners from the sampler head that had prevented the remainder of OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid Bennu sample...
View ArticleNASA Announces OSIRIS-REx Bulk Sample Mass
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu when it returned to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023; the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space and over...
View ArticleNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Samples Now Available to World’s Scientists
Scientists outside of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team are getting their first close look at the asteroid Bennu samples available for independent research just six months after their delivery to Earth. The...
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