OSIRIS-REx Mission

  • February 17, 2024 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  • Little White Schoolhouse

    26951 Barkley Road
    Conifer, Colorado 80433
Ticket Price $10.00-$12.00 This event is now over
Description

It's out of this world! 

Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)

OSIRIS-Rex was the first American mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid.  It successfully gathered surface materials from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2020 and then returned them to Earth on Sept 24, 2023 by dropping a Sample Return Capsule (SRC) into the atmosphere.  This SRC withstood a fiery reentry that was hotter than the Apollo lunar missions, then deployed two parachutes to land in northwest Utah at a DOD training range.  The main spacecraft, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX continued on, back into solar orbit on a new 7 year mission to observe another near-Earth asteroid Apophis.

The spacecraft and SRC were both designed and built here in Littleton Colorado at the Lockheed-Martin plant at Waterton Canyon, home to many prior Mars and deep space spacecraft. Bill Willcockson was one of the principal designers of the OSIRIS-REx SRC, his last spacecraft mission, before retiring in 2018.

 

 

Date & Time

Sat, Feb 17, 2024 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Venue Details

Little White Schoolhouse

26951 Barkley Road
Conifer, Colorado 80433 Little White Schoolhouse
Conifer Historical Society & Museum

Mission

The Mission of the Conifer Historical Society and Museum is to share the region's legacy by collecting, preserving and exhibiting historical and cultural materials.

Background Statement

One day, a group of Conifer residents was sitting around the dinner table together and the topic of history came up. "Do you remember who used to live on that house way down on Kuester Road? What about that old Cemetery off Pleasant Park Road? Do you know anything about that?" And so the discussion went, and The Conifer Historical Society and Museum was born. Incorporated in January 2009, we have grown and now call the former Conifer Junction Schoolhouse our home. Our purpose now is to share the region's legacy by collecting, preserving and exhibiting historical and cultural materials and provide public access to services, collections, exhibits and a research library.

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