cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/5770334

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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Please feel free to post updates and questions in the comments!

  • threelonmusketeersOPEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    No aliens, just rocks. End-of-day update:

    https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2023/09/24/osiris-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 environmental samples the recovery team collected around the capsule’s landing site this morning – the items are scheduled to be delivered on Monday, Sept. 25, to their permanent home at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.