In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...
Lauretta called a crash like the one experienced by NASA's Genesis mission as the "worst-case scenario" for OSIRIS-REx. In ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its ...
NASA said it found that inconsistent wiring label definitions in the design plans likely caused engineers to incorrectly wire the parachutes’ release triggers for the capsule. That resulted in the ...
A tiny piece of the space rock made its public debut at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, as scientists study the rest of the sample Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent The asteroid ...
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NASA now needs to look at the system responsible for releasing the parachutes. This is currently locked away with the Bennu ...
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...
The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to ...
