The OSIRIS-REx mission is the third planetary science mission selected for development in NASA's New Frontiers Program.
- Launch in September 2016, encountering asteroid (101955) Bennu in October 2018
- Study Bennu for up to 505 days, globally mapping the surface from a distance of 5 km to a distance of 0.7 km
- Obtain at least 60 g of pristine regolith and a surface material sample
- Return to Earth in September 2023 in a Stardust-heritage Sample Return Capsule (SRC)
- Deliver samples to the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) curation facility for world-wide distribution