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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx MOMs Help Asteroid Mission Thrive
May 7, 2021 -Kids depend on their parents and guardians for care, support, and guidance—and their importance in the lives of children is often celebrated with designated days, like Mother’s Day on Sunday May 9th; NASA missions are no different and...
OSIRIS-REx ‘MOM’ (That’s ‘Mission Operations Manager’ in NASA-speak) Says Goodbye to an Asteroid
April 26, 2021 -Nayi Castro began working with NASA Goddard's OSIRIS-REx mission in 2018 as the spacecraft approached Asteroid Bennu. She started on the mission as deputy Mission Operations Manager (MOM). Today she serves in the role of lead MOM. As...
Bennu’s Boulders Shine as Beacons for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx
March 9, 2020 -This summer, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake NASA’s first-ever attempt to touch the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample of it, and safely back away. But since arriving at asteroid Bennu over a year ago, the mission team has...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Students Catch Unexpected Glimpse of Newly Discovered Black Hole
February 28, 2020 -University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx in the Midst of Site Selection
December 4, 2019 -NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where the spacecraft will snag a sample from asteroid Bennu. After a lengthy and challenging process, the team is finally ready to down-select from the four candidate...
Flyover of the Candidate Sample Sites
August 29, 2019 -This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser...
OSIRIS-REx Special Collection in Nature
March 26, 2019 -When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018, it found a tiny world that in many respects was as the mission team had expected based on ground-based observations -- but the team also found that Bennu held...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record
January 2, 2019 -At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and...
TAGSAM Testing Complete: OSIRIS-REx Prepared to TAG an Asteroid
November 16, 2018 -On Nov. 14, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stretched out its robotic sampling arm for the first time in space. The arm, more formally known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), is key to the spacecraft achieving the...
Behind the Scenes of REXIS: Uncovering an Instrument in Flight
November 13, 2018 -On Sept. 14, OSIRIS-REx’s REXIS instrument opened its radiation cover, as scheduled, after two years in space. The cover had been in place to protect REXIS’s charge-coupled devices (CCDs) from degradation due to radiation exposure...
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