OSIRIS-REx Social Media Interviews

Released Friday, July 12, 2019

ID: 13207

- Produced by:
- Dan Gallagher
- Edited by:
- Courtney A. Lee
- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer

This page contains interviews with personnel from the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission, edited for social media.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched Sept. 8, 2016, and began orbiting asteroid Bennu on Dec. 31, 2018. Its primary science objective is to study Bennu and collect a sample for return to Earth in 2023. Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that records the earliest history of our solar system, and which may contain the raw ingredients of life.

Dr. Dante Lauretta - OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator, University of Arizona. Dr. Lauretta talks about the team behind the mission.

Complete transcript available.

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Dr. Amy Simon, OVIRS Deputy Instrument Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Dr. Simon talks about seeing asteroid Bennu for the first time.

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Dr. Amy Simon, OVIRS Deputy Instrument Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Dr. Simon goes in-depth about the different spectrometers used in the mission.

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Olivia Billett - OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Science Lead at Lockheed Martin. Billett talks about the complexities of orbiting around asteroid Bennu.

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Sandy Freund - OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Manager at Lockheed Martin. Freund talks about mission operations.

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Credits

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

Producer
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
Video editors
- Courtney A. Lee (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Marlee Baldridge (NASA/GSFC Higher Education)
Associate producer
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
- Lisa Poje (Freelance)
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
- Josh Masters (Freelance)
Data visualizer
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
Interviewees
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
- Amy A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
- Olivia Billett (Lockheed Martin)
- Sandra Freund (Lockheed Martin)