OSIRIS-REx: Above and Beyond

OSIRIS-REx: Above and Beyond

Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a record-breaking orbit, to mapping the asteroid’s surface better than any planetary body. The mission is now preparing to collect a sample of Bennu, which will be the first time that NASA has gathered pieces of an asteroid. On Oct. 20, the OSIRIS-REx mission will perform the first attempt of its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. Not only will the spacecraft navigate to the surface using innovative navigation techniques, but it could also collect the largest sample since the Apollo missions. The spacecraft will deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023. More about the mission: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Animator Narrator Lead Editor Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA): Animator Michael Lentz (USRA): Animator Music: "Endeavor" by Frederik Wiedmann, via Universal Production Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13719 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc