The Exploring Space Lecture Series is online! Speaker: Dr. Tim McCoy, Geologist, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History On October 20, 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission accomplished something not done by a U.S. space mission in nearly 50 years - sampling the surface of another planetary body. In this talk, Dr. McCoy will share the 15-year odyssey of proposing, building, and launching OSIRIS-REx to sample the asteroid Bennu. The Exploring Space lectures are made possible by the generous support of Aerojet Rocketdyne and United Launch Alliance. |