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Postage stamps bookmark some of history’s brightest moments. Arctic explorations, the first Moon landing, and the signing of the Bill of Rights all appear on commemorative stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service. And now, OSIRIS-REx – the first U.S. mission to return a sample collected from an asteroid – will get its own stamp, too.On Sept. 24, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft will speed past Earth and – at precisely the right moment – jettison its sample capsule containing material from asteroid Bennu. In 2020, the spacecraft briefly touched the asteroid’s surface and collected a sample of rock and dust from the asteroid.Scientists anticipate that the Bennu material will provide new insights into our solar system’s formation more than 4.5 billion years ago. It also will shed light on the role that asteroids may have played in delivering water and organic molecules, the building blocks of life, to the infant Earth.To help celebrate this engineering and scientific achievement, the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp featuring an artist’s impression of the sample capsule as it parachutes to Earth over its landing site on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range.
