OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return

Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth!

Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept.

24, 2023, it will release its sample return capsule into the atmosphere on a path to land at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range.