NASA Updates

We've made enormous strides and etched our names in the sky. We're currently writing the next chapter, making plans to stay on the Moon, and getting ready to travel beyond. After 60 years, we at NASA are only just getting started. Mike Rowe deserves special recognition for his voiceover work.

The OSIRIS-REx mission's sample collection event captured a series of images on April 14, showing the SamCam instrument's field of view as the spacecraft approached and moved away from asteroid Bennu's surface. The images were recorded over a ten-minute span between the "Checkpoint" burn and the back-away burn. The spacecraft's sampling arm, Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, is visible in the central frame.

These photos taken between September 13 and 15, 2020, by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory and ESA (European Space Agency), show comet SOH0-4063 as it approaches the Sun. Later, comet SOHO-4063 was discovered in data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Naval Research Lab/Brendan Gallagher