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Thank you to the City of Biddeford Government for recognizing our team for our contribution to the OSIRIS-REx mission!

FMI, a Spirit AeroSystems Co. was recognized by the City Council on Tuesday evening for their contributions to a recent NASA mission. OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to return a sample from the surface of an asteroid, recently completed its 7-year, 3.9-billion-mile journey. The FMI team, working out of their Morin Street facility, helped develop the sample return capsule heat shield. This heat shield kept the inside the capsule at 85°F compared to a temperature of 5000°F on the outside of the shield at re-entry.

Scientists around the world will study the sample over the coming decades to learn about how our planet and solar system formed, as well as the origin of organics that may have led to life on Earth. It is exciting to know that a Biddeford company played a key role in this historic mission!

A historic day in space exploration, especially for our team here in Maine!

To Bennu and Back: Journey’s End OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In Octob...

Great job team! Keep up the good work.

In honor of Space Day, our team in Maine celebrated by attending Space Day at one of the local middle schools. The students asked some great questions and loved hearing about the work being done here in Maine contributing to space missions. Until next year!