On September 24, 2023, a capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission floated again to Earth, touchdown safely within the Utah desert. The mission was the primary time the U.S. introduced again a bit of an asteroid and a giant second for the house company. The history-making success of OSIRIS-REx options prominently in NASA HQ’S Better of 2023 images album, just lately curated and shared on Flickr.
Different milestone moments documented within the images embody the Psyche spacecraft launch, the SpaceX Dragon Endurance touchdown, and the Earthly return of Frank Rubio, the document holder for longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut.
The Soyuz rocket is seen after being rolled out by practice to the launch pad at Website 31, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15. Picture: NASA/Invoice Ingalls
A coaching mannequin of the pattern return capsule is seen throughout a drop take a look at in preparation for the retrieval of the pattern return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, on the Division of Protection’s Utah Check and Coaching Vary. The pattern was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and can return to Earth on September twenty fourth, touchdown beneath parachute on the Utah Check and Coaching Vary. Picture: NASA/Keegan BarberAssist groups elevate the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft aboard the restoration ship MEGAN shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard within the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev are returning after practically six-months in house as a part of Expedition 69 aboard the Worldwide House Station. Picture: NASA/Joel KowskyOn this eight-minute lengthy publicity, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the corporate’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the Worldwide House Station with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov onboard, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida. Additionally seen on this picture is the entry burn and touchdown burn, at proper, performed by the primary stage of the Falcon 9 rocket because it returned to Touchdown Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the Worldwide House Station as a part of the company’s Business Crew Program. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov launched at 3:27 a.m. EDT from Launch Advanced 39A on the Kennedy House Heart to start a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Picture: NASA/Joel KowskyThe Soyuz rocket is launched with Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Picture: NASA/Invoice IngallsMembers of the Kennedy House Heart (KSC) Flight Operations staff are seen working a helicopter because the pattern return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is is en path to the cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed on the Division of Protection’s Utah Check and Coaching Vary. The pattern was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Picture: NASA/Keegan BarberCuration groups course of the pattern return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, on the Division of Protection’s Utah Check and Coaching Vary. The pattern was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Picture: NASA/Keegan BarberExpedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft simply minutes after he Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a distant space close to the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The trio are returning to Earth after logging 371 days in house as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the Worldwide House Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut in historical past. Picture: NASA/Invoice IngallsA SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Advanced 39A, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will journey to a metal-rich asteroid by the identical title orbiting the Solar between Mars and Jupiter to review it’s composition. The spacecraft additionally carries the company’s Deep House Optical Communications expertise demonstration, which is able to take a look at laser communications past the Moon. Picture: NASA/Aubrey GemignaniA pattern from asteroid Bennu is seen ready on a microscope slide, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, on the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past in Washington. The pattern was collected from the carbon wealthy close to Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Picture: NASA/Keegan BarberThe pattern return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down within the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, on the Division of Protection’s Utah Check and Coaching Vary. The pattern was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Picture: NASA/Keegan BarberThe Moon and the star Antares are seen within the sky above a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the corporate’s Dragon spacecraft on high is seen on the launch pad at Launch Advanced 39A, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the Worldwide House Station as a part of the company’s Business Crew Program. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are scheduled to launch at 3:27 a.m. EDT on Saturday, August 26, from Launch Advanced 39A on the Kennedy House Heart. Picture: NASA/Joel KowskyAssist groups work across the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed with with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina onboard within the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina are returning after 157 days in house as a part of Expedition 68 aboard the Worldwide House Station. Picture: NASA/Keegan Barber
