NASA explorers season 6 episode 3

It was Touch-and-Go there for a few seconds...literally!

OSIRIS-REx had only six seconds to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu in a maneuver called TAG, or Touch-and-Go while the #NASAExplorers behind the mission waited anxiously from 200 million miles away.

Catch up with NASA Explorers, also streaming on https://plus.nasa.gov.

Created by: James Tralie

Producers: James Tralie, Dan Gallagher, Lauren Ward, Katy Mersmann

Scientists: Dante Lauretta. Mike Moreau

Operations: Beau Bierhaus, Coralie Adam

Broadcast Hosts: Michelle Thaller, James Tralie, Gary Napier, Nancy Neal Jones

Videographers: Rob Andreoli, John Philyaw, John Caldwell

Animation: Walt Feimer, Michael Lentz, Jonathan North, Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, Krystofer Kim, James Tralie, Bailee DesRocher, Jacquelyn DeMink, Lisa Poje

Sound Design: James Tralie

Data Visualization: Kel Elkins

NASA+ Executive Producer. Rebecca Sirmons

Music provided by Universal Production Music: "Voyager" by Jeremy Stack; "Moment in Time" by David Thomas Connolly; "Held" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater, "Unstoppable Urge" by Frederik Wiedmann; "King of the Mountain" by Steven David Fay; "Night Watch" by Jeremy Stack; "Shadow Shifter" by Michael James Burns; "Follow the Drinking Gourd" by Kavin Hoo; "Conquering" by Alan Myson; "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy "Human Stories" by Dominic Francis Glynn; "Marked for Flight" by Kavin Hoo; "Never End" by Sergey Azbel; "Getting Things Done" by Theodore Vidgen; "Dark String Bend" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater, "First Rains" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater, "Natural Wonders" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater, "Successful Return" by Alan Boyd; "Frosty Dawn" by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; "Starfall" by Sergey Azbel; "Lost Thought" by Adriano Aponte

Credit: NASA