The OSIRIS-REx Sample-Return Mission: Looking for the Building Blocks of Life in Asteroid Samples

Join Dr. Danielle Simkus, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Science Collaborator on the OSIRIS-REx mission, as she shares the story of OSIRIS-REx’s journey to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu. Dr. Simkus also discusses the planned laboratory analyses of the collected samples as well as the important discoveries she believes her analyses have the potential to produce. This was recorded on August 17, 2023.

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