NASA Explorers Live Sample Return

How does it feel to watch your life's work parachute through the atmosphere? Retrieving the sample of asteroid Bennu is just the beginning of this game-changing science mission. Relive the joy and suspense of the OSIRIS-REx sample return with #NASAExplorers.

Catch up with the full season of 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, Brian May
TV Hosts: James Tralie, Jim Garvin, Lauren Ward, Sophia Roberts, Shaneequa Vereen
Return Broadcast Producers: Michael Starobin, Sami Aziz
NASA Administrator: Bill Nelson
Broadcast Logistics: Micheala Sosby
Videographers: Rob Andreoli, John Philyaw, John Caldwell, Liz Wilk
Animation: Walt Feimer, Michael Lentz, Jonathan North, Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, Krystofer Kim, James Tralie, Bailee DesRocher, Jacquelyn DeMink, Lisa Poje, Jenny McElligott
Sound Design: James Tralie
Data Visualization: Kel Elkins
NASA+ Executive Producer: Rebecca Sirmons

Music provided by Universal Production Music: “Fast Motion Orchestra” by Laurent Levesque; “Triumphal” by Alan Myson; “Betrail” by Anders Paul Niska and Klas Johan Wahl; “Sunrays” by Chips Hunt, Jez Fox, and Rohan Jones; “Conquering” by Alan Myson; “Psychotic Strings” by Matthias Ullrich and Raffael Gruber; “Between Surprise and Fear” by Alan Myson; “In the Simulator” by Alan D Boyd; “Danger Zone” by Justine Emma Barker; “Major Heart” by Jennifer Lynn Jacobs and Marc Aaron Jacobs; “Launch Pad at Sunrise” by Alan D Boyd; “Rig for Red” by Andreas Bamberger, Martin Laschober, and Richard M. Lauw; “Confronting your Fears” by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; “Floating Satellites” by Blair Mowat; “King of the Mountain” by Steven David Fay; “Arctic Wind” by Laetitia Pansanel-Garric; “Threatening Riser” by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; “Marked for Flight” by Kavin Hoo; “New Generations” by Sergey Azbel; “Dark String Bend” by Benji Paul Merrison and Will Slater; “Glistening Heart” by Adam Saunders and Mark Stephen Cousins; “Elevation” by Alan Myson; “Shores of Eventide” by Benjamin Peter McAvoy, Stuart Dale Thomas, and William David Featherby; “Rise Up” by Alasdair Neil Parkinson; “Wilderness” by Alan Myson; “On the Edge” by Or Chausha and Yaniv Barmeli

Credit: NASA