Kathy Sawyer
Scientists estimate that the capsule holds at least acup of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroidknown as Bennu but won’t know for sure until the container is opened in a day or two. Some spilled and floated away when the spacecraft scooped up too much and rocks jammed the container’s ...
OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid’s surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. The missi...
At the time, Dawn was preparing for its departure from Vesta, after spending more than a year studying the asteroid. The spacecraft completed its science objectives at Vesta on July 24. Since then, Dawn has been using its ion thrusters to gradually spiral away from the space rock. "The io...
Early next week, NASA will attempt the grueling feat of landing a spacecraft on Mars, hoping to add to its growing collection of tech on the Red Planet’s surface. This time, NASA hopes to place a robotic lander, called InSight, on a flat, boring part of the Martian terrain in order...
NASA officials announced that the two astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing's Starliner may need to return to Earth on a different spacecraft. 6 months ago New images reveal what NASA learned from colliding a spacecraft into an asteroid ...
The Artemis 2 moon crew during a launch simulation at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 20, 2023. They stand on the crew access arm at Launch 39B, which will one day bring them to the waiting Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. From left: NASA astronaut and pilot Victor...
The spacecraft will release the capsule when it comes within 63,000 miles of Earth’s surface. Assuming the capsule lands intact and is safely recovered from the Utah desert, the asteroid material that it contains “will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the sun and...
P1:NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flung a capsule the size of a car tire onto a bombing range in Utah on Sunday, delivering safely to Earth a sample of the intriguing and potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu. 参考译文:周日,美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的奥西里斯-REx太空探测器将一个汽车轮胎大小的...
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