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University of Arizona seniors celebrate 158th commencement ceremony with remarks from OSIRIS-REx leader

Jeremiah Ludwig
May 18, 2022
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

History in the now: First asteroid sample through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Jillian Bartsch
October 20, 2020
A color composite image of Earth taken on Sept. 22 by the MapCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This image was taken just hours after the spacecraft completed its Earth Gravity Assist at a range of approximately 106,000 miles.

Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu may have formed from direction collision in space, could be siblings

Alexandra Pere
June 17, 2020
(left to right) University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, Dante Lauretta, and student Keara Burke hold a press conference about OSIRIS-REx on Monday in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

OSIRIS-REx arrives to asteroid Bennu after two years of space travel

Alana Minkler
December 4, 2018
Lunar and Planetary Lab and UA art students, led by Alfred Quiroz, a UA professor of art, collaborated to create a mural. It is meant to commemorate the OSIRIS-REx mission, and is on display on the west side of the Michael J. Drake building.

Mission to asteroid revs up

Jacob Witt
April 16, 2015
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