Bring Some Asteroid To Earth: OSIRIS-Rex - 2023 | Video

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 16:00 in Mathematics & Economics

NASA's Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) will study asteroid Bennu. It will launch in 2016, arrive at the asteroid in 2018 and a minimum of 2 ounces of it will be returned 5 years later.

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