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NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe visited 101955 Bennu and returned with samples in September 2023.

On September 8, in the year 2016, NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe visited 101955 Bennu and returned with samples in September 2023. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of September 8, one of 583 recorded events on this date across all of history.

OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September 2023, is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth. Following the completion of the primary OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft, renamed as OSIRIS-APEX, began a follow-up mission to asteroid 99942 Apophis.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on September 8, 2016 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Historical Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 23 August 2026.

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Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 8 Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, Salvadoran police officer (born 1964)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 8 Ed Kranepool, American baseball player (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 8 Henny Moan, Norwegian actress (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 8 Zoot Money, English musician (born 1942)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 8 Peter Renaday, American voice actor (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 8 Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1963)
Historical Events 2023 Sep 8 A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Morocco, killing nearly 3,000 people and damaging historic sites in Marrakesh.
Historical Events 2023 Sep 8 The 2023 Rugby World Cup, the tenth men's Rugby World Cup is held in France. The opening ceremony, directed and…
Historical Events 2022 Sep 8 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after reigning for 70 years. Her son…
Notable Deaths 2022 Sep 8 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2022 Sep 8 Gwyneth Powell, English actress (born 1946)
Selected Events 2022 Sep 8 Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as…
Notable Deaths 2021 Sep 8 Luis Villafuerte, Filipino politician, former congressman and governor of Camarines Sur (born 1935)
Notable Deaths 2019 Sep 8 S. Rajasekar, Indian cinematographer, film director, and actor (born 1957)
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 8 Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (born 1948)
Notable Deaths 2018 Sep 8 Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (born 1973)
Historical Events 2017 Sep 8 Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the…
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 8 Pierre Bergé, French businessman (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 8 Blake Heron, American actor (born 1982)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 8 Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 8 Ljubiša Samardžić, Serbian actor and director (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 8 Don Williams, American musician (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2016 Sep 8 Hannes Arch, Austrian race pilot (born 1967)
Notable Deaths 2016 Sep 8 Dragiša Pešić, Montenegrin politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1954)
Notable Deaths 2016 Sep 8 Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 8 Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player (born 1952)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 8 Andrew Kohut, American political scientist and academic (born 1942)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 8 Tyler Sash, American football player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 8 Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author and poet (born 1963)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 8 Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (born 1952)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 8 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founder of Chick-fil-A (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 8 Sean O'Haire, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and kick-boxer (born 1971)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 8 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (born 1910)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 8 Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 8 George Zuverink, American baseball player (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 8 Goose Gonsoulin, American football player (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 8 Don Reichert, Canadian painter and photographer (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 8 Jean Véronis, French linguist, computer scientist, and blogger (born 1955)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 8 Radoslav Rotković, Montenegrin historian (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 8 Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (born 1937)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 8 Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 8 Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1920)
Notable Deaths 2009 Sep 8 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2009 Sep 8 Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2008 Sep 8 Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (born 1927)
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 8 Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (born 1916)
Notable Deaths 2006 Sep 8 Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (born 1915)
Notable Deaths 2006 Sep 8 Peter Brock, Australian race car driver and sportscaster (born 1945)
Historical Events 2005 Sep 8 Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first…

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