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. Music is “Path of a Hero“ Caleb Jordan Swift of Universal Production Music. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio James Tralie (ADNET): Lead Producer Lead Editor Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Michael Lentz (KBRwyle): Animator Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Animator Krystofer Kim (KBRwyle): Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Visualizer This video can be freely shared and downloaded at While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram · Twitter · Twitter · Facebook: · Flickr
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