NASA MEDIA TELECON WITH OSIRIS-REX SAMPLE STOW UPDATE, Oct 29, 2020, virtual, 4:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4:00 pm ET on October 29, 2020, to provide an update on efforts to stow the sample of the asteroid Bennu that was collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.  More material than expected was collected, challenging efforts to get it stowed in its Sample Return Canister for the trip back to Earth.

Participants are:

• Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
• Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, University of Arizona, Tucson
• Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
• Sandra Freund, OSIRIS-REx mission operations manager, Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colorado

It will air on NASA Live.