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A C-17 Globemaster aircraft with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission aboard takes off from Michael...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
A container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen aboard a C-17 Globemaster aircraft,...
A container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen aboard a C-17 Globemaster aircraft,...
A touch of history for our first asteroid sample return mission, a safe return from the International Space Station,...
On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) would be the biggest spacecraft to ever orbit Mars. The...
Mars Sample Return program manager, JPL, Bobby Braun, shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container,...
Mars Sample Return program manager, JPL, Bobby Braun, shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container,...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is filling sample tubes with rocky material on the Red Planet as the agency works on...
OSIRIS-REx is a NASA mission to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. Prior to arriving at...
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of...
NASA’s OSRIS-REx mission is designed to study near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample of Bennu to Earth in...
NASA’s OSRIS-REx mission is designed to study near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample of Bennu to Earth in...
Members of team Mountaineers pose with officials from the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot...
The NASA Centennial Challenges prize, level one, is presented to team Mountaineers for successfully completing level...
OSIRIS-REx launched Thursday, September 8 at 7:05PM on an Atlas V rocket on a journey to study asteroid Bennu and...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this panorama of a proposed landing site...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this image of flat terrain in Jezero...
OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu better than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on...
Stardust Photo documentation of Stardust Sample Return and Tray Separation at bldg 31, Stardust laboratory at JSC....
00.00 OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Ready for Reveal Video B-roll 05:11:43 Members of the OSIRIS-REx Lockheed Martin...
After a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed in the Utah...
Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a...