Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Attempt to Capture a Sample of Asteroid Bennu
Tonight (Tuesday 20th October) will see NASA attempt to set its' OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu. The mission is a first for NASA, it will the US space agency attempt to scoop up a sample and bring it home from Bennu - a small...
NASA Successfully launch OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
Good news today as Dante Lauretta, NASA's principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission, said in a post-launch press conference that the launch team had "got everything just exactly perfect" and that "all of the anomalies that we troubleshot — none of those came up. We hit all of...