NASA's historic mission to Bennu || StellarNASA

The OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved a major milestone: it has successfully deployed a Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) arm to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. This is the first time that a spacecraft has ever collected a sample from an asteroid and returned it to Earth.

In this video, we will discuss the OSIRIS-REx mission in detail, including its goals, spacecraft, and instruments. We will also explain how the spacecraft's TAGSAM arm works and how it was used to collect the sample from Bennu.