OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Trailer #NASA

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.