Watch NASA's trailer highlighting its remarkable OSIRIS-REx mission that's about to drop off asteroid samples that it collected three years ago.
OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Trailer It’s seven years since NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx mission from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and in just a few weeks’ time all the hard work will culminate in a special delivery to Earth in the form of samples from asteroid Bennu collected by NASA’s spacecraft in 2020.
Recommended Videos To get the word out about the September 24 return of the asteroid samples, NASA recently posted a trailer featuring footage from the mission, including the incredible moment when the spacecraft landed on Bennu as the rock sped through space at 63,000 mph, more than 200 million miles from Earth.
A report on NASA’s website described how mission team members recently simulated the procedures that they’ll soon be following for real, including navigating the spacecraft to Earth, instructing it to release the capsule carrying the asteroid sample, monitoring the capsule as it hurtles through the atmosphere, retrieving it quickly from the ground to prevent contamination from the environment, and finally, transporting it by helicopter to a temporary clean room.
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