Prior to landing, the agency will host a media call to provide a status update
Participants include:
- Lori Glaze, Director Planetary Sciences Division,
- Rich Burns, project manager, NASA’s Goddard
- Sandra Freund,program manager, Lockheed Martin
- Nicole Lunning, curation lead
- Dante Lauretta, principal investigator
The Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS REx) mission will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth and will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
Heliocentric N/A