NASA MEDIA TELECON WITH UPDATE ON ASTEROID SAMPLE RETURN MISSION, Sept 24, 2020, virtual, 3:00 pm ET

NASA will provide an update on its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission on September 24, 2020 at 3:00 pm ET.  The event will be streamed on NASA Live.

OSIRIS-REx [Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer] is orbiting the asteroid Bennu and will attempt to collect a sample from its surface on October 20.

Participants in the telecon are:

• Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
• Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
• Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson
• Mike Moreau, OSIRIS-REx deputy project manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
• Sandra Freund, OSIRIS-REx mission operations manager at Lockheed Martin Space