NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission

Released Friday, April 29, 2016

ID: 12227

Dante Lauretta, the Principal Investigator for OSIRIS-REx, gives an overview of the asteroid sample return mission.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so that scientists can study pristine material left over from the early solar system.

Learn more at nasa.gov/osiris-rex and asteroidmission.org.

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Producers
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
Editors
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
Narration
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
Interviewee
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
Narrator
- Sophia Roberts (USRA)
Animators
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
- Chris Smith (Self)
- Tyler Chase (USRA)
Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)