OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid’s surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. Now, two years and four months after leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REx is closing in on the place where its journey began. The mission’s thrilling finale will take place on September 24, 2023, as a capsule containing the Bennu samples touches down in Utah’s West Desert. Follow the journey to Bennu and back at: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Gallagher: Producer/Narrator Walt Feimer: Animation Lead Michael Lentz: Art Director/Animator Jonathan North: Animator Jenny McElligott: Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez: Animator Kim Dongjae: Animator Angeles Miron: Animator Josh Masters: Animator Kel Elkins: Data Visualizer Dante Lauretta: Scientist Jason Dworkin: Scientist Support: Michael Starobin Support: Lonnie Shekhtman Support: Chris Meaney Support: Ernie Wright Public Affairs: Rani Gran
Music: “A Sense of Urgency” and “Rise to the Challenge” by Daniel Marantz and Michael James Burns, Raydia Music library [PRS]; “Fragments of Time” by Timothy Robert Shortell, Scores of Hypersonic Music [BMI]
