24 Aug 2015 - Cameras Delivered for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission as Launch Prep Continues

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24 Aug 2015 - Cameras Delivered for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission as Launch Prep Continues
The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock.


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[Carmody]

In the year 2023, right?

Like hydrogen cars, right?

Like peace in our time, right?

Like over unity fusion reactors, right?

Like room temperature superconductors, right?


No future today. Come back tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow.

[Tyy1907]

The bread crumbs are still being thrown. Who's actually picking them up?

[Star Tsar]

Osiris King huh someone give them a new pantheon please!

[Inversion]

The OSIRIS-REx mission has dropped a capsule to the earth's surface in Utah after seven years in space.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flung a capsule the size of a car tire onto a bombing range in Utah on Sunday, delivering safely to Earth a sample of the intriguing and potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

The capsule, released four hours earlier by the spacecraft, parachuted onto the muddy Utah Test and Training Range. Recovery teams in four helicopters raced to the landing site in a carefully rehearsed effort designed to bag the capsule quickly to lower the risk of contamination and then spirit it to a hangar on a military base. It will be flown Monday to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas for future scientific study.

09/24/23

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ffL_7UtQFm4

The capsule containing asteroid Bennu samples, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, has successfully landed at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range, on 24 September 2023, at 14:52 UTC