OSIRIS-REx

OSIRIS-REx was launched on 8 September 2016, flew past Earth on 22 September 2017, and rendezvoused with Bennu on 3 December 2018. It spent the next several months analyzing the surface to find a suitable site from which to extract a sample. On 12 December 2019, NASA announced the first sampling site, known as Nightingale. It is expected to return...