Kudos for OSIRIS-REx
The OSIRIS-REx team was honored with the 2024 Robert H. Goddard Award from the National Space Club and Foundation. The Goddard Memorial Trophy is the most prestigious award given by the National Space Club to honor a breakthrough discovery or achievement in rocketry and aeronautics within the calendar year. The trophy will be presented at the Goddard Memorial Dinner in March.
OSIRIS-REx also won the 2023 SpaceNews Icon Award for Civil Space Achievement of the Year.
OSIRIS-REx successfully returned its asteroid sample payload of approximately 250 grams of material from asteroid Bennu on September 24.