To Bennu and Back

NASA s latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRISREx, will venture to a nearEarth asteroid to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect asteroids orbital paths and their potential for impacting Earth, and the origins of life in the solar system. In addition, OSIRISREx will collect a sample from the surface of the asteroid and return it to Earth for generations of scientists to study and analyze, making this the first American asteroid sample return mission and the largest