OSIRIS-REx
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Oct 7, 2026
Carl FranklinHOST
Hmm.
Richard CampbellHOST
In September, OSIRIS-REx, this is a, uh, US mission to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu, returns those samples successfully to Earth.
Richard CampbellHOST
And in October, Falcon Heavy launches the Psyche mission.
Richard CampbellHOST
This is a mission to the largest, uh, object in the asteroid belt.
Richard CampbellHOST
It crashes.
Richard CampbellHOST
In September, OSIRIS-REx, this is a U.S. mission to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu, returns those samples successfully to Earth.
Richard CampbellHOST
And in October, Falcon Heavy launches the Psyche mission.
Richard CampbellHOST
This is a mission to the largest object in the asteroid belt.
Richard CampbellHOST
It crashes.
Richard CampbellHOST
In September, OSIRIS-REx, this is a U.S. mission to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu, returns those samples successfully to Earth.
Richard CampbellHOST
And in October, Falcon Heavy launches the Psyche mission.
Richard CampbellHOST
This is a mission to the largest object in the asteroid belt.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
My father describes its velocity, over one hundred and one thousand kilometers per hour, and its trajectory, slightly unpredictable due to gravitational tugs from planets that it passes.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
He tells me about Osiris-Rex, the mission that scraped its surface, bringing home dust and rock.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
He describes the carbon-rich regolith, how the surface is uneven, littered with boulders, how even small collisions with could be catastrophic if it were on course for Earth.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
The energy released in an impact, he says, would be hundreds of megatons of TNT.
LeonHOST
I think it's on Perseverance.
LeonHOST
And I put SciTech's name on, might be Osiris-Rex or something like that.
AliciaHOST
Yeah, cool.
AliciaHOST
I think my name was on a USB that got shot into the sun.
BruceNARRATOR
While the official Saudi death toll stood at 769, the Associated Press estimated that more than 2,400 people were killed.
BruceNARRATOR
in 2022 russian forces launched new strikes on ukraine cities as kremlin orchestrated votes took place in occupied regions of ukraine to create a pretext for their annexation by moscow in 2023 nasa's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space were parachuted in a capsule into the utah desert to cap a seven-year journey by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
BruceNARRATOR
In a flyby of Earth, the spacecraft released the capsule from 63 miles out, and it landed four hours later as the mothership set off for another asteroid.
BruceNARRATOR
In 2025, a man with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Complex in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two others in a transport van before taking his own life.
BruceNARRATOR
While the official Saudi death toll stood at 769, the Associated Press estimated that more than 2,400 people were killed.
BruceNARRATOR
in 2022 russian forces launched new strikes on ukraine cities as kremlin orchestrated votes took place in occupied regions of ukraine to create a pretext for their annexation by moscow in 2023 nasa's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space were parachuted in a capsule into the utah desert to cap a seven-year journey by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
BruceNARRATOR
In a flyby of Earth, the spacecraft released the capsule from 63 miles out, and it landed four hours later as the mothership set off for another asteroid.
BruceNARRATOR
In 2025, a man with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Complex in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two others in a transport van before taking his own life.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
And after a journey so troubled, it's a minor miracle that that capsule actually made it back to Earth at all.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Since then, Paul has served as a bridge between JAXA and NASA, helping the Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-REx teams share some really hard-won lessons about landing on boulder-covered worlds.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
He's been on both of those science teams, on the Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART investigation team, and he has an asteroid named after him, 8139 Paul Abel.
Paul AbellGUEST
Hi, Paul.
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Paul AbellGUEST
how the Earth-Moon system formed, how Earth had its water delivered to it, and as you said, how some of the prebiotic molecules may have been delivered to Earth and how might life have evolved on Earth itself.
Paul AbellGUEST
So they're really, really fascinating from a science point of view.
Paul AbellGUEST
And the sample return missions, the most recent ones, so Hayabusa 2 went to—that was the Japanese mission that went to Rugu— And our own mission, the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, which went to Bennu, both brought back very, very interesting materials from what we call carbonaceous-type asteroids.
Paul AbellGUEST
Both Rugu and Bennu were carbonaceous material.
speaker_0HOST
But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth.
speaker_0HOST
The OSIRIS-REx mission, which rendezvoused with an asteroid in 2018, had 100 operators on each eight-hour shift.
speaker_0HOST
But resources like that are not available to startups.
speaker_0HOST
So… Astroforge, which is developing technology to mine asteroids, is turning to artificial intelligence.
Nick CialdellaGUEST
Uh, there's the Stardust missions that, you know, that, that came in.
Nick CialdellaGUEST
OSIRIS-REx more recently, you know.
Anthony ColangeloHOST
Yep.
Jake RobinsHOST
Mm-hmm.
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