Tag: NASA Centers & Facilities
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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun
Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models had predicted that, despite traveling 25 million miles closer to…
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Why Bennu? 10 Reasons
Launched on Sept. 8, 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft traveled to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to collect a sample of rocks and dust from its surface. This mission put Bennu at…