Planets and Moons ID: 13207

OSIRIS-REx Social Media Interviews

Released on July 12, 2019

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.

Source Material

Credits

Lead Producer:
Dan Gallagher (USRA)

Lead Video Editor:
Courtney A. Lee (ADNET Systems, Inc.)

Video Editor:
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.)

Lead Animator:
Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)

Data Visualizer:
Kel Elkins (USRA)

Animators:
Michael Lentz (USRA)
Lisa Poje (Freelance)
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
Josh Masters (Freelance)

Interviewees:
Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
Amy A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
Olivia Billett (Lockheed Martin)
Sandra Freund (Lockheed Martin)

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