On Thursday, July 21 at 6:00pm PDT (9:00pm EDT), Ed Beshore joined NSN members to share the details about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu.
On September 8, 2016, an Atlas 5 rocket will depart Cape Canaveral bearing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. In doing so, a new chapter in the exploration of the solar system will begin. After arriving at asteroid Bennu two years later, OSIRIS-REx will undertake a program of observations to select a site suitable for retrieving a sample that will be returned to the Earth. Our objective is to obtain a minimum of 60 grams of Bennu’s surface -- the largest amount of extra-terrestrial material returned to the Earth since the end of the Apollo lunar missions.
You can out more about the mission on our dedicated resource page at: https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/download-view.cfm?Doc_ID=585
