NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu

OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a remnant from the dawn of the solar system, and to return a sample of Bennu to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and arrives at Bennu on December 3, 2018. This video illustrates each of the mission’s carefully-designed orbit maneuvers and mapping campaigns on its journey to Bennu and back. This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: · Twitter · Flickr · Instagram Full Credits Dan Gallagher (USRA): Produc