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National Air and Space Museum’s 2025 Michael Collins Trophy Awarded to Margaret Hamilton and the OSIRIS-REx Team
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will award its 2025 Michael Collins Trophy to Margaret Hamilton for Lifetime Achievement and the OSIRIS-REx Team for Current Achievement. These annual ...
Asteroid Bennu could trigger a global winter lasting more than 3 years and here’s what’s known
A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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Lockheed Demos OSIRIS 5G System Capabilities in USMC Exercise
Lockheed Martin demonstrated the 5G capabilities of the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution, a.k.a. OSIRIS, during the Steel Knight 2024 exercise of the U.S ...
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Rex Steven Martin
A memorial service for Rex Steven Martin will be Saturday February 15, 2025 starting at 10:00 am, at Smith Funeral Home in Newton, Texas. Rex Steven Martin was born November 04, 1965 in Newton, Texas ...
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OSIRIS-REx Samples Provide Clues to Solar System’s Origins
Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and chemicals in the Bennu samples carried to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in 2023, in studies ...
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NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
The spacecraft was built and operated by Lockheed Martin Space, while KinetX Aerospace and NASA Goddard handled navigation. The mission also includes international collaborations, such as the ...
Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar system
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. It marked the ...
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NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and ...