NASA’s Asteroid Heist: The Challenges of TAG
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer and
- Kel Elkins
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- Produced by:
- Dan Gallagher
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NASA's Asteroid Heist: The Challenges of TAG.
Universal Production Music: "Avenger" by Max Cameron Concors; "Fight for Earth" by Peter Nickalls
Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20 – touch its surface and collect a sample for return to Earth. Sample site Nightingale, the mission’s targeted touch down spot, is only a few parking spaces wide and surrounded by building-sized boulders that pose a hazard to OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft will carefully navigate down to the sample site with its sampling arm extended and touch Bennu’s surface for several seconds. Upon contact, the collector head will fire a bottle of nitrogen gas to agitate loose material, which is then caught in the spacecraft’s collector head. After this brief touch, OSIRIS-REx will fire its thrusters to back away from Bennu, navigating to a safe distance from the asteroid. The spacecraft will depart Bennu in 2021 and deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Bailee DesRocher (USRA)
- Jacquelyn DeMink (USRA)
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Jonathan North (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Josh Masters (Freelance)
- Krystofer Kim (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Visualizers
- Kel Elkins (USRA) [Lead]
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
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Editor
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Interviewees
- David A. Lorenz (SGT)
- Michael Moreau (NASA/GSFC)
- Nayi Castro (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Art director
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Producers
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- James Tralie (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Videographers
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Support
- Erin Morton (The University of Arizona)
- Michael Starobin (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Set construction
- Chris Meaney (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)