Asteroid Tag

Asteroid Tag

Published on Mar 19
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<p>A billion-dollar spacecraft, a daring deep-space mission, and one of humanity’s biggest questions: Where did we come from? NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.</p><p>Guests:</p><p><a href="https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/erica-jawin"><strong>Erica Jawin</strong></a>, postdoctoral research geologist in the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and member of the OSIRIS-REx mission</p><p><a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/tim-mccoy"><strong>Tim McCoy</strong></a>, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and deputy mission sample scientist for the OSIRIS-REx mission</p><p><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/people/mike-moreau/"><strong>Mike Moreau</strong></a>, deputy project manager in the Space Science Mission Operation...