To an Asteroid and Back Trailer

In this documentary film, follow along with NASA's OSIRIS-REx team, as they launch a spacecraft to an asteroid, collect a sample of Bennu, and bring it home to Earth.

Watch the full documentary: https://plus.nasa.gov/video/to-an-ast...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Producer: James Tralie

Music is from Universal Production Music:
"Lunatic Clair" by Jonathan Slott, John Hunter Jr, Marlon Gibbons, Brian Flores
"Rush of Uncertainty" by Michael James Burns

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Transcript
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I think one of the age old human questions, perhaps going back
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to the beginning of humanity is are we alone in the universe?
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And that maps directly into why are we here?
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OSIRIS-REx is three missions in one to make that kind of exploration cost
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effectively for not much more than the price of a blockbuster movie.
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There's been nothing like OSIRIS-REx in NASA's repertoire.
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I like to call it the daredevil spacecraft.
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And we have touchdown!
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We're going back to the dawn of the solar system.
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We're looking for clues as to why Earth is a habitable world.
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And of course, the biggest question the one that drives
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my scientific investigations is the origin of life.
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What is life? How did it originate?
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And why was the earth the place that it occurred?
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