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<\/a><\/figure>OSIRIS-REx, formally the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security \u2013 Regolith Explorer<\/a>, was honored \u201cfor successfully executing the first American retrieval of an asteroid sample and its return to Earth,\u201d according to the award citation. The award was announced in March<\/a>, and the OSIRIS-REx team visited the museum on June 13, 2024, to see the mission\u2019s name engraved in brass at the base of the statue.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>It just blows me away to see the OSIRIS-REx team engraved on the Collier trophy, next to names like Orville Wright, the Apollo 8 crew, and the Voyager Mission Team,\u201d said Michael Moreau, OSIRIS-REx deputy project manager at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m so proud of our amazing team that their excellence and sacrifice to make the OSIRIS-REx mission so successful have been recognized with this prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n While NASA\u2019s accomplishments have been honored with the Collier award many times<\/a>, this is one of just a handful of instances that NASA Goddard has been a major partner on a winning team.\u00a0NASA Goddard most recently claimed a share of the award in 2022 for the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>. Previous wins also include 1993 honors for the Hubble Space Telescope and the 1974 prize for a NASA\u2013U.S. Geological Survey satellite that began the long-running Landsat program<\/a> that studies and monitors changes to Earth\u2019s land masses.<\/p>\n The OSIRIS-REx team includes NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland;\u00a0Lockheed Martin\u00a0in Littleton, Colorado;\u00a0the University of Arizona, Tucson; and KinetX in Tempe, Arizona. NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center is responsible for the curation of the Bennu sample material that OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth in September 2023.<\/p>\n The Collier Trophy resides in a glass case in the \u201cAmerica by Air\u201d section on the museum\u2019s first floor. The century-old trophy stands at over 7 feet tall and weighs 525 pounds. The bronze sculpture depicts a globe, with three figures emerging from it. The sculpture rests on two walnut bases, each adorned with an engrave brass plaque bearing the names of the recipients.<\/p>\n Baltimore sculptor Ernest Wise Keyser designed the Trophy in 1910 for Robert J. Collier, the publisher of Collier\u2019s Weekly magazine and president of the Aero Club of America.<\/p>\n