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NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA

August 23, 2024

Sumer Loggins

As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially handed over by NASA officials during a ceremony on Aug. 22 at JAXA’s Sagamihara, Japan, campus. This asteroid sample transfer follows the…
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Revisiting OSIRIS-REx

August 19, 2024

Monika Luabeya

An OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule training model parachutes down in this image from Aug. 30, 2023. This drop test was part of NASA’s preparations for the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. This photo was chosen by…
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Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

June 26, 2024

Rob Garner

Scientists have eagerly awaited the opportunity to dig into the 4.3-ounce (121.6-gram) pristine asteroid Bennu sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission since it was delivered to Earth last fall. They hoped the material would hold secrets of the solar system’s past and the prebiotic chemistry…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History

June 18, 2024

Rob Garner

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the National Aeronautic Association, the trophy recognizes groundbreaking aerospace achievements. OSIRIS-REx, formally the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer, was honored “for…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award

April 1, 2024

Jamie Adkins

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award “for exceptional performance and extraordinary perseverance in successfully delivering a sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth.” The award, named after the first person to walk on the Moon, is given annually…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

March 26, 2024

Katy Mersmann

NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy. NAA awards the trophy annually for what it determines is “the greatest achievement in aerospace and astronautics in America.” The OSIRIS-REx team will be celebrated at an award…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy

March 25, 2024

Jamie Adkins

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foundation’s 2024 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for their tremendous work on the first U.S. mission to bring an asteroid sample to Earth. The winning team received the award at the 67th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner at the…
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NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample

January 19, 2024

Wendy K. Avedisian

The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to reveal the remainder of the asteroid Bennu sample inside. On Jan. 10, they successfully removed two stubborn fasteners that had prevented the final steps of opening the Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head. Erika Blumenfeld, creative lead…
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2023 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley

December 13, 2023

Arezu Sarvestani

It’s been another great year at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Join us as we review some of the highlights of the science, engineering, and innovation from 2023. Announcing a New Innovation Hub Planned for NASA Research Park at Ames Berkeley Space Center is a proposed new campus of the University of…
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NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023

October 27, 2023

Roxana Bardan

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and revolutionizing flight have been named TIME’s Inventions of 2023. TIME announced the honorees on Oct. 24. “For more than 65 years, NASA has innovated for the benefit of…
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NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA

Revisiting OSIRIS-REx

Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy

NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample

2023 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley

NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023

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