An Update on the OSIRIS-REx Mission and Sample Retrieval from Asteroid Bennu ~ Carl Hergenrother (NASA and Univ. of Arizona)

OSIRIS-REx is a NASA spacecraft mission to collect material from Near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. After spending ~2 years studying Bennu up close, OSIRIS-REx successfully sampled the surface of Bennu in October 2020. The spacecraft has since departed Bennu and is scheduled to deliver its samples to Earth in September 2023. Carl will update The Local Group about the amazing discoveries made at Bennu.