Osiris Rex goes Apex. This week on Planetary Radio. I'm Sarah Al Ahmed of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

After NASA's Osyros-Rex spacecraft's successful sample return from asteroid Benno,

it's on to its next adventure as Osiris Apex, the Apophis Explorer.

Scott Guzach, deputy project scientist for Apex Apex joins us today to discuss the next steps for the

mission as we count down to the flyby of asteroid Apophis in 2029.

Then Bruce Betz, our Chief Scientist, will pop in for What's Up, and a look at some other multi-world missions.

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Cosmos and are placed within it. On September 24th, 2023, NASA's Osiris Rec spacecraft made headlines by

delivering precious samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth. This marked the

culmination of a seven-year journey that took the spacecraft over 7 billion

kilometers or 4 billion miles. Samples like these are vital to helping us

understand the history and future of our solar system and life on our planet.

Our solar system is filled with countless small worlds,

asteroids and comets.

They're made from the leftover material from the disk of gas and dust

that formed the planets 4.5 billion years ago. disk and

does that formed the planets 4.5 billion years ago. We think some of these bodies may have

crash landed on Earth, bringing water and organic materials with them. But to piece

together this grand story, we need tangible pieces of the past.

And that's precisely what asteroid Bennu offered us.

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