and recovery specialist Levi Hanish, right, all with Lockheed Martin, prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport after it landed at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in Octob...
After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the#OSIRISRExasteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.pic.twitter.com/KVDWiovago — ...
Two shots from the OSIRIS-REx probe showing its TAGSAM sample collector, loaded with small rocks and soil from the surface of the asteroid Bennu, being mounted inside a protective capsule for return to Earth in 2023.NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Said Lori Glaze, director of...
NASA’sOSIRIS-RExcapsule has safely returned asteroid Bennu samples to Earth, landing in Utah after a controlled descent. The U.S. has, for the first time, delivered rocks and dust from an asteroid to Earth.NASA’s OSIRIS-RExsample capsule, carrying asample of asteroid Bennu, touched...
This is NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission. Bennu was chosen because its carbon-rich material is believed to hold the preserved building blocks of our solar system. Getting pieces from this cosmic time capsule could help scientists better understand how the planets formed billions of year...
A first-class flight in a Soyuz space capsule is rocky, reliable and rather snug. An astronaut sits in a semi-fetal position, works the controls with a stick and feels a pretty heavy G load, especially on reentry. So imagine if a fire breaks out on the Soyuz spacecraft. There’s no...
Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen took this picture of a totem pole during a vision quest with the Turtle Lodge. The lodge is situated on the Indigenous lands of Sagkeeng First Nation (also known as Fort Alexander), Manitoba, Canada, on the southern tip of Lake Winnipeg.(Image credit: Jere...
NASA on Friday cut two astronauts from the next crew to make room on the return trip for the two stuck at the International Space Station. August 30, 2024 3:42pm EDT Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule will return to Earth as early as next week, without crew: NASA NASA and Boeing said...
Japan will not only provide the new pressurized rover, but also operate it on the lunar surface, with or without astronauts on board. TheLunar Cruiser, which NASA will launch and deliver to the moon, is expected to ready by 2031 for use by the Artemis 7 crew and then serve subsequent mi...