Asteroid sample return mission on track for Fall '23 Delivery

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2022

NASA's first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on Sept. 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course correction keeps the vehicle on track to deliver a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, completing a seven-year mission. The delivery itself, however, is not a simple parcel drop on Earth's front doorstep: NA