[OSIRIS-REx] NASA's attempt to land on an asteroid and return samples

Are they bringing nukes just in case asteroid decides to hug us?

 

"Land on [space thing], bring stuff back to Earth." There have been approximately 617 movies made about this same scenerio. What could possibly go wrong?

 

We can do it! #USA #USA #USA!

 

OSIRIS

so we named the thing after the God of the Dead?

 

The asteroid contains a sample of a symbiote, that once bonded with a host, cannot survive without oxygen-breathing hosts. Grants the host
super strength, the ability to heal, shape-shifting, create weapons, heightened-sensory perception, and the ability to reproduce itself.

Vulnerable to certain pitch sound and becomes a nemsis to Spiderman.

 

What you worry about is that they discover it's a baby asteroid. And that the mother is coming after. And that the mother f'er asteroid is right behind her. At that moment NASA redefines the term asswipe before a captive audience of billions.

 

The lid won't close all the way and it's leaking material as it spins away.

 

Maybe that asteroid has future plans for a rolling ball that's the 3rd planet from the Sun.

 

Can't fool me. There are no stars, just like Stanley Kubrick's moon landing.

Captured on Aug. 11 during the second rehearsal of the OSIRIS-REx mission’s sample collection event, this series of images shows the navigation camera’s (NavCam 2) field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and moves away from asteroid Bennu’s surface.​

 

ok...the DART mission that just crashed into an asteroid and live-streamed it was completely badass. NASA is so freakin cool. Represents some of the best of humanity.

 

THATS MY FATHER!!!!

 

This twitter account is pretty great:

 

All they needed was Slim Pickens riding DART.

 

There's an Italian space craft following that is supposed to confirm the impact. My guess will be some video showing this.