Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
On October 20, 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history by collecting NASA's first sample from an asteroid. The entire sampling event at asteroid Bennu took almost six hours from orbit departure, through touchdown on the surface, to the spacecraft's back-away maneuver. Take a look back at the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's activities like you're a member of the mission operations team! The team used this real-time engineering simulation during the Touch-And-Go sample collection event to monitor the spacecraft's activity.
On October 20, 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history by collecting NASA's first sample from an asteroid. The entire sampling event at asteroid Bennu took almost six hours from orbit departure, through touchdown on the surface, to the spacecraft's back-away maneuver. Take a look back at the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's activities like you're a member of the mission operations team! The team used this real-time engineering simulation during the Touch-And-Go sample collection event to monitor the spacecraft's activity.
