NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid That May Have Answers to the Origin of our Solar System

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	November 28, 2018  MEDIA ADVISORY M18-180 NASA Provides Live Coverage of Spacecraft Arrival at Asteroid That May Have Answers to the Origin of our Solar System This "super-resolution” view of asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018, from a distance of about 205 miles (330 kilometers). Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Larger view NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3 at approximately noon EST. NASA will air a live event from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST to highlight the arrival of the agency’s first asteroid sample return mission. The program will originate from OSIRIS-REx’s mission control at the Lockheed Martin Space facility in Littleton, Colorado, and will air on NASA Television, Facebook Live, Ustream, YouTube and the agency's website. NASA TV also will air an arrival preview program starting at 11:15 a.m. EST. OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and has been slowly approaching Bennu. The spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying the asteroid with five scientific instruments with the goal of selecting a location that is safe and scientifically interesting to collect the sample. OSIRIS-REx will return the sample to Earth in September 2023. Participants in the arrival coverage event include: Michelle Thaller, moderator, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md Heather Enos, OSIRIS-REx deputy principal investigator, University of Arizona, Tucson Mark Fisher, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft engineer, Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colo. Coralie Adam, OSIRIS-REx flight navigator, KinetX, Inc. Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics, Simi Valley, Calif. Media can submit questions in advance to Danielle.M.Hauf@xxxxxxxx. On Dec. 3. media and the public may ask questions using the hashtag #askNASA on Twitter or by leaving a comment on the livestream of the event on the OSIRIS-REx Mission Facebook page. For more information about OSIRIS-REx, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex -end-
	Press Contacts Dwayne Brown / JoAnna Wendel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 / 202-358-1003 dwayne.c.brown@xxxxxxxx/ joanna.r.wendel@xxxxxxxx Nancy Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@xxxxxxxx Erin Morton University of Arizona, Tucson 520-269-2493 morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dani Hauf Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colo. 720-252-1769 danielle.m.hauf@xxxxxxxx
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