OSIRIS-REx: NASA's Asteroid Sample-Return Mission in Pictures

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission launched in 2016 to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth. See photos from the mission here.

On Sept. 22, 2017, OSIRIS-REx will fly by Earth in a gravity assist maneuver (shown here in an artist’s illustration) to accelerate it on its way to Bennu.

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