OSIRIS-REx TAG Events

Released Tuesday, October 20, 2020

ID: 13741

- Produced by:
- Rani Gran
- Graphics:
- Dan Gallagher
- Hosted by:
- Michelle Thaller

OSIRIS-REx Mission Support Area - TAG Sequence and Celebration

B-ROLL

OSIRIS-REx, which is about the size of a 15-passenger van, is currently orbiting the asteroid Bennu 200 million miles from Earth. Bennu contains material from the early solar system and may contain the molecular precursors to life and Earth’s oceans. The asteroid is about as tall as the Empire State Building and could potentially threaten Earth late in the next century, with a 1‐in‐2,700 chance of impacting our planet during one of its close approaches. OSIRIS-REx is now ready to take a sample of this ancient relic of our solar system and bring its stories and secrets home to Earth.

OSIRIS-REx TAG Event: NASA's First Asteroid Sample Collection Attempt

Live Broadcast - October 20, 2020

Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.

OSIRIS-REx Post TAG Briefing

Live Broadcast - October 21, 2020

Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel.

For More Information

See NASA.gov

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Director
- Michael Starobin (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Producers
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
- Ned Barbee (Lockheed Martin)
- Chris Tucker (Lockheed Martin)
Graphics
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Swarupa Nune (InuTeq)
Hosts
- Michelle Thaller (NASA/GSFC)
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
- Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC)
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Gary Napier (Lockheed Martin)
Video engineers
- Pat Kennedy (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Walter Lindblom (SAIC)
Technical director
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Audio technician
- Alexander Velle (SAIC)
Broadcast engineer
- Don Garcia (Garceworks)
Nasa administrator
- James Bridenstine (NASA/HQ)
Presenters
- Thomas H. Zurbuchen (NASA/HQ)
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
- Rich Burns (NASA/GSFC)
- Sandra Freund (Lockheed Martin)
Support
- Erin Morton (The University of Arizona)
- Rich Melnick (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)