NASA Prepares for Historic Asteroid Sample Delivery on Sept. 24

  • Released Friday, March 24, 2023
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Teaser for the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return on September 24, 2023.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Music is "Supernatural Superhero" by Frederik Wiedmann of Universal Production Music.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. When its sample capsule parachutes down into the Utah desert on Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx will become the United States’ first-ever mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth.

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