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- OSIRIS-Rex – Asteroid Sample Return Mission http://www.asteroidmission.org/objectives/bennu/ 3 comments
- The OSIRIS-REx mission launched successfully today at 7:05! https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex 21 comments space
- OSIRIS-REx Mission: For the first time ever scientists return asteroid Bennu samples on Earth - https://orbitaltoday.com/2023/09/24/osiris-rex-mission-nasas-ready-for-bennu-asteroid-samples-return/ 6 comments futurology
- NASA extends OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission to visit Apophis https://newatlas.com/space/osiris-rex-apex-apophis-asteroid-mission/ 14 comments space
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx grabs rocks from asteroid in historic mission https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/21/nasas-osiris-rex-grabs-rocks-from-asteroid-in-historic-mission 154 comments space
- Osiris-REX Images Earth During Flyby... The asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REX mission took time during last Friday's gravity assist maneuver to look back at its homeworld.. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/osiris-rex-images-earth-during-flyby/ 5 comments space
- Cameras for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/osiris-rex-ocams-suite.jpg 4 comments space
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission prepares for touchdown on an asteroid https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ibjgjx/nasas_osirisrex_mission_prepares_for_touchdown_on/ 5 comments space
- NASA Mission AMA: We are scientists and engineers preparing for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s Earth flyby tomorrow. Ask us anything! http://www.asteroidmission.org/ 163 comments science
- [SFN] Quick work saved the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission from nearby explosion http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/13/quick-work-saved-the-osiris-rex-asteroid-mission-from-nearby-explosion/ 4 comments spacex
- I am Dr. Dante Lauretta, I study the chemistry of our solar system, extrasolar systems, and am building a robot to visit an asteroid and return a sample to Earth – the OSIRIS-REx NASA Mission, AMA! http://www.arizona.edu/ 381 comments science
- NASA announces the award of OSIRIS-REx. It will be the first mission to return samples back from an asteroid. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/osiris-rex.html 7 comments space
- Mysterious Lights Near Bennu. OSIRIS-REx: Mission Status Update http://nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/osiris-rex-mission-status-update 14 comments space
- Brian May Guest Blog: Stereoscopic Images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sampling Head – OSIRIS-REx Mission | NASA https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2023/10/17/brian-may-guest-blog-stereoscopic-images-from-nasas-osiris-rex-sampling-head/ 3 comments space
- Samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission excite scientists with their potential to reveal secrets of the Solar System. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02954-2 2 comments science
- Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’ https://www.engadget.com/nasa-osiris-rex-bennu-finding-plastic-ball-pit-184718806.html 11 comments space
- After two years traveling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu https://phys.org/news/2018-11-images-asteroid-bennu-nasa-osiris-rex.html 4 comments space
- The first up close observations of an "activated asteroid" are made, as scientists on the OSIRIS-REx mission observe ejection events launching particle plumes from Bennu's surface. https://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasa-mission-reveals-asteroid-big-surprises 18 comments space
- Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission hints that the asteroid could have splintered off from an ancient, small, primitive ocean world https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/surprising-phosphate-finding-in-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample/ 9 comments science
- Scientists peer inside an asteroid: New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers—like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though space. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/10/08/scientists-peer-inside-asteroid 3 comments space
- Asteroid Bennu ejected about a dozen bursts of high-speed particles from its surface since NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission reached the porous blue rock late last year. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/03/osiris-rex-caught-asteroid-bennu-ejecting-bursts-of-strange-high-speed-particles 8 comments space
- When this post is six hours old, the OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft will begin it's three-week orbital insertion maneuver around the Near-Earth asteroid Bennu! • Watch live on NASA TV at 11:45am ET and follow the mission on r/osirisrex! https://www.asteroidmission.org/orex-arrival-5-days-carousel/ 5 comments space
