OSIRIS-REx: Countdown to Launch is a half-hour AZPM original documentary providing an in-depth look at the science and scientists behind the asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx.

While a precise launch date has not been determined, OSIRIS-REx has a 39-day launch window that opens on 3 September 2016. Once launched, OSIRIS-REx will leave Earth on a direct outbound ...

Sept. 8, 2016: Launch. Sept. 22, 2017: Earth flyby. Dec. 3, 2018: OSIRIS-REx arrives at asteroid Bennu. Dec. 31, 2019: OSIRIS-REx begins orbiting Bennu. Oct. 20, 2020 ...

On Sept. 8, 2016, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe took off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 41 just after 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT).

When NASA’s only major concerns for the OSIRIS-REx launch on Thursday are some fluffy white clouds, you know the mission is in good shape. The mission, led by the University of Arizona’s Lunar ...

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short, is the first spacecraft to return with an asteroid sample collection in ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...

In this photo provided by NASA, recovery teams participate in field rehearsals to prepare for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission at the Department of Defense ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.A team ...

OSIRIS-REx launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket on Sept. 8, 2016 at 7:05 pm EDT. (Image credit: United Launch Alliance) ...

In his book, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission describes the frantic morning of final checks before the launch. The following is an excerpt from The Asteroid Hunter: A ...