Canada to get rare asteroid sample after OSIRIS-REx drops cargo to Earth on Sunday

Sir Brian May 'immensely proud' to be part of Osiris-Rex asteroid sample team

Sir Brian May has said he is "immensely proud" to be part of the team who successfully collected NASA's first asteroid samples from deep space.

OSIRIS-REx Sample Capsule Safely Touches Down with NASA's First-Ever Asteroid Sample

The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system

MONTRÉAL — Une sonde lancée il y a sept ans afin de collecter des échantillons d’un astéroïde a livré dimanche sa marchandise, et le Canada recevra sa part.  Lancée en 2016 par la NASA, la mission OSIRIS-REx a recueilli des morceaux de l’astéroïde Bénou en 2020 avant de reprendre le chemin de la Terre. Les scientifiques espèrent que ces échantillons offriront un aperçu de la formation du système solaire. La sonde avait commencé à se placer en or…

The OSIRIS-REx Capsule Has Landed! Asteroid Samples Returned!

The OSIRIS-REx mission has just completed NASA’s first sample-return mission from a near-Earth asteroid (NEA). The samples arrived at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) near Salt Lake City, where a team of engineers arrived by helicopter to retrieve the sample capsule. The samples will be curated by NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate (ARES) and Japan’s Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center (ESCuC). Analysis…

NASA's OSIRIS-REx returns asteroid sample Bennu, landing it on Earth

OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, lifted off in 2016. The spacecraft collected the sample in 2020 and landed in Utah on Sunday.

Sir Brian May praises Osiris-Rex team as asteroid samples land on Earth

Sir Brian May is bursting with pride following the Osiris-Rex mission (Picture: Getty/EPA) Sir Brian May has said he is ‘immensely proud’ to be part of the Osiris-Rex team who have successfully collected Nasa’s first asteroid samples from deep space. A capsule containing around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert near Salt Lake City on Sunday (September 24). Earlier in the day, the Osiris-Rex spac…