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Weekly Space Hangout: Jan 2, 2019- News Roundup
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
OSIRIS-REx has Finally Caught up with Asteroid Bennu. Let the Analysis and Sample Collection Commence!
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has reached its destination and is now in orbit around asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft travelled for over…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Captures Lovely Blue Marble during Gravity Assist Swing-by to Asteroid Bennu
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely ‘Blue Marble’ image of our Home Planet during…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampler Slingshots Around Earth Friday, Sept. 22 – Catch It If You Can!
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to…
NASA Technology Used To Find Stone Age Structures
Using the same kind of light and detection ranging (lidar) technology as the OSIRIS-REx missions, archaeologists are uncovering secrets of…
NASA’s Outbound OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sampler Snaps ‘First-Light’ Images
NASA’s newest planetary probe, the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling spacecraft, is merrily snapping its ‘First-Light’ images following the successful power up…
Bound for Bennu, OSIRIS-REx Begins Trailblazing Asteroid Sampling Sortie for Life’s Origins – Sunset Launch Gallery
Ken UT 12 September 2016 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Bound for Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic explorer began a trailblazing…
OSIRIS-REx Blasts off on 7 Year Sampling Trek to Asteroid Bennu and Back
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx hi tech robotic explorer blasted off this evening in spectacular fashion from the…
Journey to Bennu – Today Sept. 8: Watch the Trailer, Watch the Earth Departure Launch Live
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today is ‘Earth Departure Day’ for OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first mission to snatch “pristine materials” from…
OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Mission Seeks to Search for Origin of Life Chemistry
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - OSIRIS-Rex, NASA’s first mission to retrieve and return samples of “pristine materials” from the surface…