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OSIRIS-REx (Origins-spectral Interpretation-resource Identification-security-regolith Explorer, New Frontiers 3 or NF3) is a mission carrying samples of an asteroid back to Earth. The asteroid is 101955 Bennu, earlier known as 1999 RQ36. The project was the third NASA New Frontiers mission, which was launched in September 2016, entered orbit around the asteroid in December 2018, observed it, collected samples in October 2020, and in May 2021 began the return trip to reach Earth in September 2023, sending a sample return capsule into Earth atmosphere to parachute in Utah. Subsequent plans are to set OSIRIS-REx on a new mission termed OSIRIS-APEX, to visit another asteroid, 99942 Apophis, reaching it in 2029.