The Coming Descent to Asteroid Bennu

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After a year of circling close to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS REx spacecraft is almost ready to dip down and collect a surface sample for return to labs on our home planet. Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta prepares us for this exciting event and shares the great science already accomplished. Editorial Director Jason Davis stops by with a report on the successful test by SpaceX of its Crew Dragon escape system. Are we finally about to see astronauts using it to reach the International Space Station? Learn more and enter the weekly What’s Up space trivia contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0122-2020-dante-lauretta-osiris-rex.html

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0:00.0	The coming perilous descent to asteroid Benu this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	Dante Loretta is back. The principal investigator for the Osiris Rex Mission will tell us about the site selected on Bennu
0:26.2	for a daring descent and sample collection.
0:29.7	SpaceX just successfully demonstrated that its crew dragon capsule can get itself clear of a
0:35.8	troubled rocket.
0:36.8	We'll ask Planetary Society editorial director Jason Davis if the next step is putting humans inside, later you can join
0:45.4	what's nearly a space poetry festival as we enjoy another what's up with Bruce Betts.
0:50.8	Remember me inviting you last week to check out my monthly planetary
0:55.3	radio newsletter? The January edition is now available and you can easily
1:00.1	subscribe by visiting planetary.org
1:03.2	slash radio news. That's planetary
1:05.8	dot work slash radio news to add to your already
1:09.2	sublime plan rat experience. Our conversation with Jason Davis is just ahead after we tease you
1:17.2	with some of the space headlines in his latest edition of the
1:25.0	down lake. We'll start with a headline from the Juno mission. On Christmas Day, the spacecraft imaged a section of the big planet's moon
1:29.0	Ganymede on its 24th orbit.
1:32.0	We'll have to ask Principal Investigators Scott Bolton
1:34.7	about this. He'll be joining us on next week's show. You can learn more about
1:39.0	and see more of our solar system's biggest satellite at planetary.org.
1:45.0	NASA welcomed 11 brand new astronauts in a graduation ceremony.
1:50.0	The six women among them include a geologist and a biologist.
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