Event Description
NASA will brief media to provide an update on science results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission, which delivered a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in September 2023.
Participants in the teleconference include
- Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Danny Glavin, senior scientist for sample return, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland
- Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, NASA Goddard
- Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington
- Sara Russell, cosmic mineralogist, Natural History Museum, London