OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Trailer

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The primitive material from Bennu – rocks and dust collected from the asteroid’s surface in 2020 – will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. Learn more about the OSIRIS-REx mission. Follow sample-delivery updates on the OSIRIS-REx blog. Music is “Path of a Hero“ Caleb Jordan Swift of Universal Production Music. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Michael Lentz (KBRwyle): Animator Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Animator Kr