" OSIRIS-REx: Sampling the Past to Save the Future”
by Annie Wargetz
When we think about planetary science missions, it’s easy to become hyper-focused on a specific discovery made by the mission or one of the mission’s milestones. We don’t often think about the mission in its entirety. We are in a unique position to do just that with the OSIRIS-REx mission. For context, the operational phase of the OSIRIS-REx mission, from launch to sample return, has happened within the past 7 years.
Let’s relive the story of OSIRIS-REx by starting at the Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) phase when the scientific instruments were installed on the spacecraft. We’ll go through each page of the OSIRIS-REx story all the way through to the sample returning back to Earth on September 24, 2023. We’ll close by talking about what happens now for the sample and the spacecraft.
As always, bring your curiosity and your questions. Hope to see you at the meeting where we journey with OSIRIS-REx to Bennu and back!
Our Speaker: Annie Wargetz is a life-long space enthusiast who has a passion for inspiring those around her about space, the Sun, and space exploration. She holds a graduate degree in Space Sciences from the University of North Dakota where she focused her studies on human spaceflight. She studied mission and spacecraft design as well as life support systems. Her favorite topics to speak on as an ambassador are human spaceflight, heliophysics, and NASA's planetary science missions. She hopes to inspire people to look up to the stars with hope and to learn more about the advances in space exploration.
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This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. To attend, you must register for the meeting. You can do so using the link below. You will receive an email with the details of the meeting and a link that will allow you to join in.
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Join us Friday, October 6th, 2023, at 7:00 pm CDST.
See you then!