OSIRIS-REx Readies for Asteroid Bennu

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 15 September 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dante Lauretta heads the most ambitious mission to an asteroid ever mounted. With one year left till launch, he returns to Planetary Radio with an update.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dante Loretta and Osiris Rex this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:12.0	I'm Matt Kaplan to the Final Frontier.
0:12.6	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.3	Osiris Rex.
0:17.3	Is that a cool name for a spacecraft or what?
0:20.8	Its launch toward asteroid Benu is one year away. Principal investigator Dante Loretta
0:26.0	is back with a status update. Bill Nye is on the road this week, but Emily is here
0:31.1	with more exciting news from Pluto.
0:33.8	And today's What's Up segment includes a chance to win
0:37.0	Extranot, the game that lets you manage your own planetary
0:40.8	science mission.
0:42.0	It comes from Dante Loretta. Yeah, same guy.
0:46.1	Before we go on, I want to thank everyone who let us know how much you enjoyed coverage of
0:49.6	our Sophia flight last week. More than 50,000 of you have also seen the great little video Merck Boyen produced about that
0:57.0	trip.
0:58.0	You'll find it on the Planetary Society Facebook page and on our YouTube channel.
1:03.0	Here's the Society Senior Editor.
1:05.0	Emily, the parade of images from New Horizons is underway.
1:09.0	You've got them in the blog in your Twitter account, that's at E. Lachto-wala. Why are you so
1:16.4	excited about these other than the fact that they're gorgeous? Well I'm excited
1:19.8	about the fact that everything that's coming down from Pluto is being shared on the web.
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