OSIRIS-REx: Above and Beyond
A recap of the major achievements of the OSIRIS-REx mission to sample asteroid Bennu and return the sample back to Earth by 2023.
Music is "Endeavor" by Frederik Wiedmann of Universal Production Music
Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a record-breaking orbit, to mapping the asteroid’s surface better than any planetary body. The mission is now preparing to collect a sample of Bennu, which will be the first time that NASA has gathered pieces of an asteroid. On Oct. 20, the OSIRIS-REx mission will perform the first attempt of its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. Not only will the spacecraft navigate to the surface using innovative navigation techniques, but it could also collect the largest sample since the Apollo missions. The spacecraft will deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Animators
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
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Narrator
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Editor
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, September 18, 2020.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:44 PM EDT.