Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 49 minutes ago

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This animation shows the path that the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will take on its journey to asteroid Bennu and back to Earth! OSIRIS-REx launches in 2016 and returns a sample of Bennu's surface material to Earth in 2023.

OSIRIS-REx is on the web at https://www.AsteroidMission.org.

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Music: Torches - You Were Young