Maricopa County Library District: NASA Ambassadors – Osiris-REX Mission

he Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) is the first U.S. spacecraft to collect a sample from an asteroid. OSIRIS-Rex traveled to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and in September, it is projected to bring a small sample to Earth for study.

Join us to learn about the mission!

 The mission was developed by scientists at the University of Arizona and it will give us more information about how the early solar system formed and how life began as well as help to better understand asteroids that could impact Earth in the future.