#EZScience: OSIRIS-REx Touches Down On Bennu

#EZScience: OSIRIS-REx Touch­es Down On Bennu



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The OSIRIS-REx space­craft is sched­uled to touch down on the aster­oid Ben­nu on Octo­ber 20, 2020, for its first sam­ple col­lec­tion attempt. To kick off the sec­ond sea­son of #EZScience, NASA asso­ciate admin­is­tra­tor for sci­ence Dr. Thomas Zur­buchen and Nation­al Air and Space Muse­um direc­tor Dr. Ellen Sto­fan dis­cuss this excit­ing and inno­v­a­tive mis­sion to return sam­ples from an aster­oid to Earth and the sci­en­tif­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties it opens up. 

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