Osiris-Rex: Countdown to Launch

Sitting on the asteroid Bennu, over a hundred million miles away from earth, are a few ounces of surface material that scientists are anxiously awaiting to sample. They’d best be patient, as the University of Arizona led NASA mission to retrieve the sample OSIRIS-REx – is seven years away from bringing it back to earth. Watch this exciting design-to-launch look at the science and scientists behind this fourteen year one billion dollar mission.