LISTEN: NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Mission of 2023 Findings Set for Release Jan. 29
By Space Coast Daily // January 28, 2025
Audio of the media call will stream live
BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA — NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, January 29, to provide an update on science results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission, which delivered a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in September 2023.
Audio of the media call will stream live on the agency’s website.
Participants in the Teleconference include:
● Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
● Danny Glavin, senior scientist for sample return, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland
● Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, NASA Goddard
● Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington
● Sara Russell, cosmic mineralogist, Natural History Museum, London
Launched on September 8, 2016, OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid in space. The spacecraft traveled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu and collected a sample of rocks and dust from the surface in 2020. It delivered the sample to Earth on September 24, 2023.
Audio of the media call will stream live on the agency’s website.
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